PMID- 31579501 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 2042-0188 (Print) IS - 2042-0196 (Electronic) IS - 2042-0188 (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2019 TI - Review of multimodal treatment for type 2 diabetes: combining metabolic surgery and pharmacotherapy. PG - 2042018819875407 LID - 10.1177/2042018819875407 [doi] LID - 2042018819875407 AB - Treating type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in patients with obesity remains a challenge for physicians, endocrinologists and surgeons, a fact supported by uncontroverted evidence from studies looking at mortality and associated morbidity. Metabolic surgery remains the most effective treatment for obesity and T2DM with evidence demonstrating an improvement or resolution of symptoms of T2DM and a reduction in a mortality and rates of cardiovascular events compared with pharmacotherapy alone. While these results are promising, two important limitations must be recognized and addressed. With regards to long-term remission of T2DM, the metabolic benefits of bariatric surgery appear to fatigue with time and a proportion of patients will not maintain normoglycaemia without pharmacotherapy. Second, there has been noteworthy progress in the development of several classes of medications for the treatment of T2DM which were unavailable when the original studies comparing the effects of bariatric surgery with pharmacotherapy were conducted. Recognizing the need for further treatment following metabolic surgery for long-term disease control in conjunction with the availability of newer medications offering more effective, nonsurgical treatment presents a critical turning point in treatment treating obesity. While the traditional approach would be to determine the superiority (or non-inferiority) of these agents compared with surgery, clinicians and surgeons must acknowledge the limitations of this attitude towards treatment given evidence from fields such as cancer, where a combinational approach is the gold standard. Recent advances in pharmacotherapy, present not only a novel approach to medical therapy but a renewed impetus to investigate what can be achieved through multimodal care. CI - (c) The Author(s), 2019. FAU - Sudlow, Alexis AU - Sudlow A AD - Southmead Hospital, Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Bristol, UK. FAU - le Roux, Carel W AU - le Roux CW AD - University College Dublin, Department of Experimental Pathology, Dublin, Ireland. FAU - Pournaras, Dimitri J AU - Pournaras DJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8798-920X AD - Southmead Hospital, Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Southmead Rd, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20190923 PL - United States TA - Ther Adv Endocrinol Metab JT - Therapeutic advances in endocrinology and metabolism JID - 101532143 PMC - PMC6759694 OTO - NOTNLM OT - antiobesity drugs OT - bariatric surgery OT - obesity OT - type 2 diabetes OT - weight regain OT - weight-loss drugs COIS- Conflict of interest statement: AS: no conflict of interest to declare. ClR: reports grants from the Science Foundation Ireland; grants from the Health Research Board; grants from AnaBio during the conduct of the study; another from NovoNordisk; another from GI Dynamics; personal fees from Eli Lilly; grants and personal fees from Johnson and Johnson; personal fees from Sanofi Aventis; personal fees from Astra Zeneca; personal fees from Janssen; personal fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb; personal fees from Boehringer-Ingelheim; outside the submitted work and shares in Keyron. DJP: reports receiving honoraria from NovoNordisk and Johnson and Johnson for lectures. EDAT- 2019/10/04 06:00 MHDA- 2019/10/04 06:01 PMCR- 2019/09/23 CRDT- 2019/10/04 06:00 PHST- 2019/05/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/08/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/10/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/10/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/10/04 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/09/23 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1177_2042018819875407 [pii] AID - 10.1177/2042018819875407 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Ther Adv Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Sep 23;10:2042018819875407. doi: 10.1177/2042018819875407. eCollection 2019.