The obese affected by the diabetes who have been operated on for bariatric surgery no longer strictly follow their long-term treatment, according to the results of a study published in the medical journal JAMA Surgery.
French researchers from the Cavale-Blanche hospital in Brest (Finistère) conducted a study with 15,650 obese patients operated on in 2009 in France, of which 84.6% were women, on average 38.9 years old to analyze the impact of this type of operation on the follow-up of diabetes treatment. They compared their results with those control group of control patients.
Just over 10% of patients were on a prescription for diabetes medication. 91.7% of them were taking metformin and one in five patients was takinginsulin.
A link between bariatric surgery and diabetes treatment
The results of the study showed that the rate of discontinuation of antidiabetic treatment was much higher in patients who had had gastric surgery than in the control group. It was 49.9% compared to 9% six years after the operation.
“Morbid obesity remains a chronic disease even after bariatric surgery because 50.1% of patients who took treatment for diabetes before surgery continued to take it six years afterwards. The present study highlights the need for careful monitoring medical prescriptions and obese patients after the operation “, recall the researchers.
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