Cholecystectomy more likely to cause diabetes than obesity

2010-2019, National Health Insurance Corporation data analysis and research on 160,000 people
Cholecystectomy has a higher probability than obesity, causing diabetes… Obesity 24%, cholecystectomy 29%
Cholecystectomy patients have a 20% increased risk of developing diabetes
Obese people who had cholecystectomy had a 41% higher risk of developing diabetes than those who did not.

Studies have shown that patients who have undergone cholecystectomy have an increased risk of developing diabetes.

In particular, people with a low risk of developing diabetes (young, not obese, and without hypertensive metabolic syndrome) who underwent cholecystectomy had a more pronounced risk of developing diabetes.

Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital Endocrinology Department Professor Kang Joon-gu and Heo Ji-hye, Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital Department of Gastroenterology Professor Lee Gyeong-ju, Soongsil University Department of Information Statistics Actuarial Department Professor Han Kyung-do and their research team published the thesis, ‘Cholecystectomy increases the risk of type 2 diabetes in the Korean population)’.

To date, there have been no large-scale studies that have followed up the risk of developing diabetes in patients undergoing cholecystectomy for a long period of time.

Accordingly, the research team followed up a group (55,166 people) who underwent cholecystectomy from 2010 to 2015 and a group (110,332 people) who had the same gender and age but did not undergo cholecystectomy until 2019, and found no difference in the incidence of diabetes. investigated whether there is

As a result, it was confirmed that those who underwent cholecystectomy had a 20% increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who did not.

In addition, the increased risk of developing diabetes due to cholecystectomy (29% risk increase) was found to be higher than the increased risk of developing diabetes due to obesity (the most important risk factor for diabetes) (24% risk increase). In other words, the risk of developing diabetes due to cholecystectomy is greater than that of obesity.

In particular, obese people who underwent cholecystectomy had up to a 41% higher risk of developing diabetes than non-obese people who did not undergo cholecystectomy.

The degree to which the risk of developing diabetes increased in the group that underwent cholecystectomy was higher than those with major risk factors for diabetes (obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, old age, metabolic syndrome, and impaired fasting glucose). more pronounced in humans.

Professor Kang Joon-goo said, “This study clinically proves the theory that the gallbladder is an organ that plays an important role in maintaining the body’s metabolism. Therefore, those who have undergone cholecystectomy must continuously monitor their blood sugar.”

The study was published in the latest issue of ‘Annals of Surgery (IF=13.787),’ the official journal of the American Academy of Surgery.

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