5.0.0.0 MED­I­CAL DE­VICES FOR WEIGHT LOSS

Sev­er­al min­i­mal­ly in­va­sive med­i­cal de­vices have been re­cently ap­proved by the FDA for short-‍term weight loss (43). It re­mains to be seen how these are used for obe­si­ty treat­ment. Given the high cost, ex­tremely lim­it­ed in­sur­ance cov­er­age, and pauci­ty of data in peo­ple with di­a­betes at this time, these are not con­sid­ered to be the stan­dard of care for obe­si­ty man­age­ment in peo­ple with type 2 di­a­betes.