Studies have shown that patients who have undergone cholecystectomy have an increased risk of developing diabetes.
The gallbladder, commonly referred to as ‘the gallbladder’, is a pouch-like structure that functions to concentrate and store ‘bile’. When you eat, your gallbladder secretes stored bile into your digestive tract. Bile aids in the digestion of fats and fat-soluble vitamins, and plays an important role in cholesterol metabolism and maintaining blood sugar homeostasis in the body.
Diseases that occur in the gallbladder include cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, gallbladder polyps, and gallbladder (malignant) tumors, and the treatment for these is mostly cholecystectomy.
Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital’s endocrinology department professor Kang Joon-gu and Huh Ji-hye’s research team recently announced these results through a thesis, ‘Effect of cholecystectomy on the incidence of diabetes’. The paper was published in the latest issue of ‘Annals of Surgery,’ the official journal of the American Academy of Surgery (citation index: 13.787).
The research team followed up until 2019 in a group that underwent cholecystectomy from 2010 to 2015 (55,166 people) and a group of the same gender and age but without cholecystectomy (110,332 people), and found no difference in the incidence of diabetes. investigated whether
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.
Therefore, patients who have undergone cholecystectomy should have a healthy diet (avoid simple sugary foods, increase vegetable intake and maintain a balanced nutritional intake) and regular exercise (at least 150 minutes a week) to prevent diabetes.
In addition, the research team explained that regular hospital checkups should be performed to check for diabetes.
Also, the increased risk of developing diabetes due to cholecystectomy (29% risk increase) was found to be higher than the increased risk of diabetes (24% risk increase) due to obesity, the most important risk factor for diabetes. 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 of increase in the risk of developing diabetes in the group that underwent cholecystectomy was higher than that of those with major risk factors for diabetes (obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, old age, metabolic syndrome, and impaired fasting glucose). was more evident in
Professor Joon-Koo Kang said, “This study clinically proves the theory that the gallbladder is an organ that plays an important role in maintaining the metabolic rate in the body.” Therefore, those who have undergone cholecystectomy must continuously monitor their blood sugar.”
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