Rohit Soans, MD, Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery at Temple University Hospital and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, offered insight to Reuters Health about a study examining the effect of gastric bypass vs. best medical treatment on early stage chronic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity. Dr. Soans was not involved in the study, which was published in JAMA Surgery. MD Alert and Medscape picked up the Reuters Health piece.
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