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Type 2 diabetes in teens reversed through surgery

Obese youths suffering from type 2 diabetes can now undergo Gastric Bypass Weight Loss Surgery that helps reverses the disease. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass weight loss surgery helps halt the use of medications for type 2 diabetes in most obese adolescents who underwent this procedure.

A new study conducted by Thomas H. Inge, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and his colleagues in pediatrics have found out after extensive studies on such patients who underwent this popular surgical procedure. Studies also showed that risk factors for heart disease are minimized. The long-term effects of this popular surgery among obese adolescents however remain uncertain.

While Type 2 diabetes is associated with adults, over the last two decades more adolescents have become prone to childhood obesity. As a result of this, they suffer from type 2 diabetes. Earlier, weight loss surgery was found to be effective in reversing type 2 diabetes in adults. However, the same is also effective in adolescents too. The Roux-en-Y gastric by pass surgery is one of the most common surgeries to be performed by surgeons in the nation.

Research was conducted on 12 adolescents who underwent this popular surgery and researchers found that after a year’s completion of the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, 11 out of the 12 teens had their type 2 diabetes reversed.

Studies showed that the average body mass index or BMI reduced considerably to 34% while fasting blood glucose and insulin concentrations became reduced by 41% and 81 % respectively. Blood pressure levels saw improvements along with better cholesterol levels both great risk factors for heart disease. Another group of adolescents who were treated for Type2 diabetes through medications showed no significant improvement.

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