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Bariatric surgery is recommended for eligible patients with noncirrhotic MASLD to achieve sustained weight reduction and remission of type 2 diabetes.
If you have severe obesity and MASLD, discuss bariatric surgery with your doctor. It can lead to significant weight loss and remission of type 2 diabetes, reducing your risk of liver and heart disease.
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Bariatric surgery was recommended for eligible patients with noncirrhotic MASLD. Bariatric surgery facilitates sustained weight reduction of approximately 30% and the remission of T2DM, thereby lowering cardiovascular and cancer mortality, which are predominant mortality factors in MASLD/MASH.
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Based on expert consensus and cited studies showing improved outcomes.
Source
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease management in Saudi Arabia: A modified Delphi-based adaptation of international standards
Faisal Abaalkhail et al. · Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology · 2025
DOI 10.4103/sjg.sjg_199_25
clinical_guideline · n=15Cited 3×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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