All included patients had presurgical T2D and matching was between RYGB or SG using a 1:1 propensity score, matching with a generalized linear model including age, sex, BMI at baseline, comorbidities (cardiovascular, dyslipidemia, sleep apnea, and hypertension), T2D parameters at baseline (HbA1c, number of T2D medications, insulin use, duration of T2D), year of surgery and percentage Total Weight Loss (%TWL) at nadir. The gene discussed is INS; the disease is Hypertension.