Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Through Weight Loss

The LAP-BAND® System Results

If you’ve been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, you know and fear the risks that come with this progressive and chronic disease. Your daily quality of life can suffer. There are long-term complications that may arise, like kidney failure, heart disease, blindness and most tragically, a shortened life expectancy.

The costs associated with managing diabetes through medication and lifestyle changes can be a financial burden and cost upwards of $15 000 a year (*Over a 2-year study period in a group of patients with an average BMI of 37. LAP-BAND® System patients received the procedure in addition to conventional Diabetes treatment and education.) Despite these costs, these conventional treatments have only proven moderately successful.

Thankfully, there is another option for the treatment of your Type 2 Diabetes, the LAP-BAND® System.

The true advantage of the LAP-BAND® System, and the key to achieving remission of your Type 2 Diabetes, is the sustained weight loss that it promotes.

Take control of your Type 2 Diabetes

Recent studies have shown that patients with Type 2 Diabetes who use the LAP-BAND® System are more likely to achieve remission of their diabetes versus those who use conventional treatments. In fact, 73% of patients with Type 2 Diabetes achieve remission of their symptoms. This should come as a relief to those nearly 2 million Canadians who are currently suffering with the disease.

*Over a 2-year study period in a group of patients with an average BMI of 37. LAP-BAND® System patients received the procedure in addition to conventional diabetes treatment and education

The LAP-BAND® System is the only adjustable laproscopic gastric banding device that is Health Canada approved to be a source of improvement or remission of Type 2 Diabetes through weight-loss. And has already been a well-established weight-loss option in Canada for over a decade.