In this health talk Dietitian, Pallavi Jassal talks about Metabolic Surgery as an option for morbidly obese individuals with Dr. Amit Garg Chief Consultant Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery Fortis Hospital Mohali.
Metabolic Surgery is a procedure that has been proven to be useful in reversing Metabolic Syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome is the new name for a set of health conditions that increases the chance of developing diabetes heart disease and stroke.
It is important to have at least three metabolic risk factors to be labelled with metabolic syndrome.
- A large waistline is found in abdominal obesity or “having an apple shape.” Excess deposition of fat in the stomach area is a greater risk factor for diabetes heart disease & stroke than excess fat in other parts of the body such as on the buttocks thighs etc.
- High blood triglyceride level which is a type of fat found in the blood.
- Low HDL cholesterol level which is also called “good” cholesterol. HDL helps remove cholesterol from your arteries. A low HDL cholesterol level increases your risk for heart disease.
- High blood pressure is the condition in which the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries is increased as your heart pumps blood. If this pressure rises and stays high over time it can damage your heart and lead to plaque build-up.
- A high fasting blood sugar of mildly high blood sugar may also increase the chances of heart disease or stroke.
- The treatment of Metabolic Syndrome when done by a surgical method is called Metabolic Surgery.
Metabolic surgery
The American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS in 2009 changed its name to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) in order to promote awareness on the benefits of surgical procedures for weight loss in treating metabolic diseases especially adult-onset diabetes or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).
Today the term Metabolic Surgery is used to describe surgical weight loss treatments and procedures to treat metabolic diseases especially T2DM (type 2 diabetes mellitus).
In obese patients with Body Mass Index (BMI) more than 35 surgeries like gastric bypass and biliopancreatic diversion have resulted in control/ cure of diabetes.
However, in non-obese patients with diabetes Ileal Interposition surgery or Duodenojejunal bypass surgery has been found to be useful. This can be performed in thin type 2 diabetics with BMI as low as 30 or with sleeve Gastrectomy in overweight/obese diabetics.
Do get in touch with us to see if any of the procedures would be useful for you.
Take care stay informed stay blessed and LiveLifeMore.
Yours in health awareness
Dietitian Pallavi Jassal & Dr. Sandeep Jassal
Team LiveLifeMore
