Can Surgeries Solve Diabetes?

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 3 Americans born in 2000 will have a tendency to develop diabetes during his lifetime - a forecast that sees 29 million Americans diagnosed, and an additional 10 million undiagnosed cases develop, by the year 2050.

For a very long time, diabetes has always affected millions of people worldwide. It's not just the person who have the disease, sometimes their relatives and friends are also contracted with this deadly diabetes disease. Diabetes works by affecting a person's insulin levels within his body. What then is insulin? Insulin is a hormone which allows the glucose in the blood to enter one's body cells to be used for energy. People suffering from diabetes are very likely to have problems with their hearts, kidneys, eyes, and feet.

In Canada, it is said that approximately $9 billion were lost every year because of Diabetes, which is the 7th leading cause of deaths in this country. Diabetes are also known to be causing blindness among adults.

Even though diabetes surgery looks to be promising, we still need more data on the benefits and risks by performing such an operation on the patient.

Diabetic surgery is surely not a magic pill where you can expect to get rid of the illness overnight, but it is definitely a great alternative nonetheless. For type 1 diabetes, surgery is only done is certain cases. For type 2 diabetes however, surgery can't be done at all.

After having performed surgeries on obese people suffering from diabetes, surgeons find that 98% of these people no longer have diabetes a few weeks later. This phenomenon can't be attributed to weight loss as the time frame is too short.

Moreover, other diabetes physicians feel that diabetic surgery should only be considered as "a last resort" after pioneering research on patients by an international team of doctors claim it can really cure the illness.

Diabetes is becoming an increasingly global health threat. If diabetes is not treated it can cause long-term health problems because the high glucose levels in the blood will damage the blood vessels. Simply put, diabetes is a very lethal disease that impairs the body's ability to utilize food properly. The key to managing diabetes is education and knowledge.

By: James Troy

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