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Chilean newspaper news:
The most kilos in our country are a problem that not only worries women, but also specialists.And it is not for less, especially if we consider that one in five people should live daily with this evil, which affects them both physically and psychologically.
For years, gastric bypass has been presented as a favorable solution - very invasive - to fatness.However, specialists have discovered in it a new benefit: 90% of patients with morbid obesity under this operation, and who also have type 2 diabetes, fully recover from the latter, ceasing to depend on their medicines.
Although those affected can live for years controlled with diets, drugs and/or insulin, the digestive surgeon of the Obesity Treatment Center of the Catholic University, Camilo Boza, explains that "diabetes is a chronic disease that is not improved, becauseIn the long term, patients run the risk of loss of vision, heart attacks, liver problems, vascular accidents, ocular, renal insufficiencies, among other side effects of sugar presence in blood vessels. "
Therefore, gastric bypass surgery is glimpsed for these patients as a hopeful alternative to combat this evil, because although in principle it was to counteract morbid obesity, the experience showed that it exercised the same - and even better - effect on diabetes.
"We began to see that those who underwent this procedure were improved 100% and stopped needing insulin, even before losing weight, which once was almost unthinkable," says the professional.
At the same time, Boza argues that the success of this operation in the fight against diabetes is not only due to weight loss and reduction in food intake, "but to the deviation of their transit in the digestive tract,since with the bypass they stop going through an area where hormones are secreted that order to reduce insulin production, which increases glycemia. "
Therefore, it is a mixed type procedure, that is, it allows weight loss through the restriction of food intake and the decrease in its absorption."It consists of cutting the stomach and a small gastric bag (10 to 20 cc) is formed that, as they commonly call it, is bracket and that connects to an intestine segment below, so that it restricts the food entry"He explains.
With this, the patients manage to lose weight and overcome diabetes, normalizing blood sugar rates, so that the person ceases to be in constant damage to their tissues, which can even derive in death.
Thus, of the interventions carried out to overcome obesity, this is the only one that gives these excellent results, which is widely encouraging if we consider that an obese and diabetic person significantly puts his life at risk if he fails to fight it effectively.
