Disorders of the Digestive and Musculoskeletal System

Disorders of the Digestive and Musculoskeletal System
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Bariatric surgery for the treatment of diabetes in children and adolescents
Diabetes is recognized all over the world as a devastating health problem. As the weight of an individual increases, so does his or her chance of getting type 2 diabetes. Bariatric surgeons know that bariatric surgery – also referred to weight loss surgery – has a considerable effect on type 2 diabetes (T2D). It is actually normal for a patient with this disease to discontinue his or her diabetic drugs following weight loss surgery. The number of youngsters who are obese keeps on rising, with an equivalent rise in extreme obesity as well as paediatric-adolescent bariatric surgery (Black et al., 2013). In this paper, an evidence-based research article that focuses comprehensively on bariatric surgery for the treatment of diabetes in children is identified. A synopsis of the major idea of the research findings is provided.
Lennerz, B. S., Wabitsch, M., Lippert, H., Wolff, S., Knoll, C., Manger, T., Keiss, W., & Stroh, C. (2014). Bariatric surgery in adolescents and young adults – safety and effectiveness in a cohort of 345 patients. International Journal of Obesity (2014) 38, 334-340
In their study, Lennerz et al. (2014) sought to investigate the efficacy as well as safety of bariatric surgery – also known as weight-loss surgery – in adolescents and young adults and to improve treatment suggestions for young adults and adolescents. Adolescents who have extreme obesity are considered as a high-risk group. These obese young people suffer from impairments in: physical, social, and emotional functioning; quality of life; elevated rates of psychiatric and somatic comordities; as well as increased mortality (Lennerz et al., 2014). Bariatric surgery, as the authors pointed out, is the only intervention that is effectual in achieving lasting weight loss, reversing comorbidities, and in so doing decrease mortality in grownups. As a result of these positive outcomes, using bariatric surgery in children and teenagers has risen globally.
The design of their study was prospective longitudinal registry. Patients who were undergoing bariatric surgery from January of 2005 in Germany were enrolled in an online registry. The participants of their study were young adults as well as adolescents who were all below 18 years of age (Lennerz et al., 2014). These patients were operated in Germany from 2005 January until 2010 December. The participants/patients were observed for an average of 388 days following operation. The surgical techniques that were carried most frequently were gastric bypass in 33% of the patients; sleeve gastrectomy in 28% of the patients; and gastric banding in 34.2% of the patients. Temporary complications – specific postoperative, general postoperative and intra-operative – wer...