Type 2 diabetes often causes "sugar obesity"! Gastric reduction and colonectomy surgery helps patients lose weight and regulate blood sugar

"Diabetic obesity" refers to patients with type 2 diabetes and overweight. Among patients with type 2 diabetes, more than 80% have the problem of being overweight or obese. If patients with diabetes and obesity do not maintain good blood sugar control, they will be more likely to develop complications such as cardiovascular disease, retinal, neurological and kidney disease in the future. For patients who need to lose weight, gastric reduction and rectal surgery can currently be used to help, and there is even hope of stabilizing blood sugar and reducing the use of diabetes medications!

President Huang Zhikun and Dr. Xin Mingzhe of Annan Hospital took a photo with the patient. (Photo courtesy of Annan Hospital)

80% of Type 2 Diabetes Patients Are Overweight, Possibly Susceptible to Diabetes

In the past, the treatment for type 2 diabetes has been mainly taking blood sugar medication or injecting insulin, but in the past decade, more and more patients with diabetes have chosen to lose weight through bariatric metabolic surgery while controlling their diabetes medication. A 44-year-old Miss Zhao was busy with her business and often had an unbalanced diet and irregular meals, which caused her weight to soar to 85 kilograms. At the age of 36, she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. From then on, she started taking diabetes medication every day and became a standard "diabetic obesity" patient.

Ms. Zhao has been taking medication to treat her diabetes in recent years, but the control of the medication has gradually deteriorated, so she decided to undergo weight loss metabolic surgery. Now, one and a half years after undergoing gastric reduction and rectal surgery, not only has her blood sugar level before meals dropped from 190 to 83, she no longer needs to take any blood sugar medication and has successfully lost 25 kilograms. Get rid of the image of an old aunt and become a hot mom that everyone envies.

Gastric bypass surgery is a surgery that reduces the size of the stomach and bypasses the small intestine. It has two mechanisms: limiting food intake and reducing food absorption.

Stomach reduction and small bowel bypass surgery is a combination of sleeve gastrectomy and proximal small bowel bypass. Its design combines two important mechanisms in bariatric surgery: restricting food intake and reducing food absorption. After sleeve gastrectomy, the remaining stomach volume is approximately 100 cc. Due to the reduction in stomach capacity, food intake can be reduced. Surgery can also improve the secretion of gastric hormones, which can reduce hunger and increase the sensitivity of body tissues to insulin, thereby improving blood sugar regulation.

Patients Ms. Zhao and Mr. Xu. (Photo courtesy of Annan Hospital)

According to Huang Zhikun, director of the International Metabolic and Physical Medicine Center of Annan Hospital, bariatric metabolic surgery can not only effectively reduce 80% of excess weight, but can also effectively treat and relieve diabetes. According to statistics from the International Center for Metabolic and Physical Medicine over the past 15 years, 80% of type 2 diabetes patients no longer need to rely on blood sugar medication and insulin injections to control their blood sugar after weight loss metabolic surgery, and both men and women can achieve very significant results.

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The team led by Dr. Huang Zhikun has performed surgeries on more than 6,000 patients over the past 15 years, helping them regain their health and shape! Since the team opened the outpatient clinic and surgery at Annan Hospital four years ago, more than 300 patients have undergone weight loss metabolic surgery at Annan Hospital. However, President Huang Zhikun also called for that whether it is weight loss surgery or metabolic surgery, it must be combined with professional surgical weight loss surgeons and a professionally trained medical care team, in conjunction with nutritionists and physical fitness teachers, to arrange personalized postoperative nutritional guidance and exercise training plans for each patient, so that each patient can receive the best surgical care and long-term results!