Surgery, hope for type 2 diabetics with obesity

Metabolic surgery has been revealed as an effective medical technique to cure type 2 diabetes (the most frequent) in obese people, since patients undergoing this type of surgical intervention cease to be diabetics or improve in a percentage of the percentage of the30% to 70%.

It is a very hopeful fact to mitigate the effects of obesity, the cause of the death of 2.5 million people a year in the world, according to statistics.

"There is a direct relationship between the increase in body mass and the risk of premature death. In morbid obese, the risk of premature death can be forty times higher," says the specialist of the Obesity and General Surgery Unit and digestive sectionfrom the Quirón de Torrevieja Hospital, Dr. Pedro Bretcha.Precisely, this hospital is one of the first in Spain to practice metabolic surgery to obese people with the aim of cure or improve their diabetes.

Most cases of type 2 diabetes are associated with obesity, according to some studies.

In Spain, 38% of the population is overweight and 14% presents obesity, a disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) announces an upcoming epidemic due to greater prevalence in the child population.

In fact, in the United States it is the first cause of preventable death, even surpassing smoking.

According to Bretcha, the medical data extrapolable to the first world (among them, Spain) confirms that one in seven obese will have the short -lived life expectancy;In the case of men, it could decrease in twelve years, and in that of women, in nine.

In addition to diabetes, overweight is associated with other disorders, such as sleep apnea syndrome, heart problems, arterial hypertension, fertility alterations, joint overload, gastroesophageal reflux, as well as problems of self -esteem andanxiety.

It is estimated that 80% of obsessed patients undergoing metabolic surgical intervention cease to be diabetic in the first two years of the operation, always depending on the surgical technique used.Of that percentage, the specialist concretes, 30% manages to heal the diabetes after five years have elapsed since the operation, while the remaining 50% falls.