Response to Comment on ?Type 2 diabetes mellitus ? time to change the concept?

Abstract

In this short letter, we comment on the major points of the response to our previous paper. In particular, we provide further clarification of our position on the issue of bariatric surgery, on principal pharmacological approaches to the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus and on the cause-effect interplay between obesity and development of type 2 diabetes.

Keywords

• diabetes mellitus type 2
• obesity
• gravicentric concept
• bariatric surgery