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Teens who are suffering from obesity or diabetes can actually get a reverse after their gastric bypass surgery, studies have revealed.

The research was done using 11 extremely obese teens that had undergone the gastro plasty surgery to tackle their obesity and diabetes problems. The researchers reported that 10 of the teens studied discovered that their diabetes had disappeared in less than a year after their weight-loss surgery. The last of the 11 patients was still diabetic, but had stopped taking diabetes drugs and now needed much less insulin.

Previous studies in the matter have shown how beneficial obesity surgery is for adults’ diabetic problems. Dr. Thomas Inge, a surgeon in pediatrics at the medical center of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and his colleagues decided to also verify the authenticity of these same results for adolescents.

According to Inge, the study opens the door to weight-loss surgery as a reliable treatment option for teens with Type 2 diabetes, which are severely obese. More research is still in progress on this
The January issue of Pediatrics’ result is being released Monday.
Records have shown that about a third of U.S. teens are either obese or overweight. Also there is an increase in the number of obese children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This is the most popular form of the disease and was not seen before now in kids.

Dr Larry referred to it as “marching south through the generations”. Dr Larry, who was the former president of the American Diabetes Association and the group’s spokesman, said it was really scary.
There is a need to carefully select the teen candidates for weight-loss surgery, he said, since the possible long term consequence of the operation for children aren’t yet known.
The 11 patients in the study ranged from14 to 21 years old and were all extremely range from 250 to 403 obese. They had gastric bypass surgery and/or stomach stapling, at five different medical centers.

They were compared in the study, to 67 obese teens with diabetes at the Cincinnati Children’s hospital that uses diet or medication to control their blood sugar.
Those who had surgery, after one year lost between 72 and 218 pounds, but did not drop to a normal weight. 10 of them stopped taking diabetes medicine.

The teens that didn’t have surgery still had diabetes after a year and their weight or their use of diabetes medication remained the same. The researchers also reported the improvement in their blood sugar levels.

The researchers could not ascertain the reason why the one surgery patient diabetes wasn’t reversed. But they took note that his mother and a sibling of his also had Type 2 diabetes. Three years later after the surgery, the teen still needed to take insulin even though he was no longer overweight.

Another possible explanation for this could be that his diabetes was likely more advanced than that of the other teens, Inge said. He further said that according to Adult studies, the chances of reversing diabetes are better done after diagnosis.