The Swedish Obese Subjects study is a fabulous example of how very-useful practical knowledge can come out of a well-conducted cohort study.  Not everything has to be a prospective randomized controlled trial!   This study has produced a number of landmark papers which provide convincing evidence that: 1.       Bariatric surgery offers survival benefit over the long term for the morbidly obese, despite the up-front mortality risk from the surgery itself. 2.       Bariatric su

I’ve previously written here about the 2 major New England Journal trials looking at treating type 2 diabetes with bariatric surgery.  Those studies showed a very robust ability of bariatric surgery to treat type 2 diabetes.  If you can use bariatric surgery to treat type 2 diabetes, what about prevention?  This question was examined in a more recent NEJM publication of selected results from the Swedish Obese Subjects (SoS) study from Carlsson et al. Guest Post by Dr. Jonatha