Prospective Metabolic Surgery in T2DM Chinese Subjects

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. History of T2DM for a duration \> 10 years;
• •2. History of drug and/or alcohol abuse within 2 years of Screening Visit;
• •3. Any previous major GI surgery (e.g., any GI surgery with a resection, etc.). Previous GI surgery allowed include: appendectomy, gall bladder surgery, liver biopsies, and endoscopic procedures;
• •4. Scheduled concurrent surgical, non-endoscopy, procedure from Visit 1 through the end of Visit 3;
• •5. Women of childbearing potential who are pregnant or lactating at the time of screening, at the time of surgery, or planning to become pregnant one year or sooner after the surgery;
• •6. Psychiatric disorders that may affect compliance with the clinical study, including dementia, active psychosis, severe depression, or history of suicide attempts;
• •7. Any of the following conditions:
• •1. Inflammatory diseases of the GI tract, including severe intractable esophagitis, gastric ulceration, duodenal ulceration, or specific inflammation such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis that have been active within the past 10 years;
• •2. End stage renal disease;
• •3. Abnormal results from glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantibodies (GADA) or protein tyrosine phosphatase-like protein (IA-2A) testing; or
• •4. Immunocompromised such as that resulting from chronic oral steroid use, cancer chemotherapeutic agents, or immune deficiency disorders;
• •8. Participation in any other clinical study (not to include registries or survey-only studies) within 30-days or 5 half-lives of an investigational drug (which ever is longer), of Visit 1 (Screening Visit) and for the duration of the study.