Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 14: Prof M R Attri, a renowned laparoscopic and bariatric surgeon and Professor of Surgery delivered a talk on role of Bariatric Surgery in Diabetes secondary to Obesity during a conference at GMC Kathua .
“Obesity has become a global health crisis with its financial burden on every country in the world and India is no exception.In our country every one in four persons are obese and overweight leading to obesity related diseases like hypertension,diabetes, heart disease and heart attacks, Joint diseases, Sleep apnea, infertility etc.” Dr Attri said
All these diseases lead to bad effects on health thereby decreasing the life expectancy of people who are affected by them, he said.
“Lifestyle modifications like regular exercise,diet control are helpful in many cases up to certain stage so are the medical treatment of obesity which is costly as well as associated with side effects. Moreover, the weight comes back along with diabetes once you stop the drugs and here comes the role of Bariatric and metabolic surgery recommended by all the world obesity and cardiac associations like IFSO etc because obesity surgery provides a long term weight loss and control of diabetes and hypertension associated with obesity with minimal complications,” Dr Attri said.
“This is the responsibility of media ,medical experts and government of the day to spread the awareness about this emerging health crisis which is impacting our health and burdening our healthcare systems,” he added.
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