Research shows that nearly 600 million people have abnormal blood sugar Experts: Obesity and diabetes are "difficult brothers"

Cover news reporter Shao Meng

"Obesity and diabetes are a difficult brother." Meng Hua, director of the Metabolic Weight Loss Center of the General Surgery Department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, revealed that "the data of the "Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status Report of Chinese Residents" released in 2020 shows that more than half of the people in China are overweight and obese, and the overweight rate of adult residents (≥18 years old) is 34.3% and the obesity rate is 16.4%.

The scene of the press conference of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital. Cover news reporter Shao Meng photography

According to reports, obesity will cause many metabolic diseases, of which diabetes is the most typical. The data shows that there are 113.9 million diabetic people in China, 490 million people with abnormal glucose tolerance, and nearly 600 million people with abnormal blood sugar. The data was published in The Lancet magazine by Shanghai Academician Ning Guang in 2010, "This is a terrible trend." Meng Hua said.

On September 23, the China-Japan Friendship Hospital held a press conference on "More Beautiful and Healthier" in Beijing. According to reports, in 2017, the China-Japan Friendship Hospital established the country's first full-process medical center for all-round diagnosis and treatment of obese and diabetic patients and lifestyle intervention. Meng Hua said that patients who come here to see the doctor first consider drug treatment. At the same time, the nutrition management team will provide patients with a scientific and comprehensive nutrition program. The last intervention is surgical treatment.

Meng Hua said that in 2016, 48 international authorities and 45 international medical organizations issued a joint statement: specific obese diabetic patients need surgery. Authoritative magazines such as Nature, New England, and The Lancet also frequently appear in terms such as "surgery cures diabetes".

Meng Hua said in response to a question on the cover news that behind the diabetic weight reduction surgery is a solid backing of a whole-process, multidisciplinary team to provide services for patients, only in this way can the safety of surgery be well guaranteed.

He also said that the development status of diabetic weight loss surgery is not balanced, such as the United States 300 million people, to do 300,000 cases a year, China's Taiwan Province 23 million people, to do more than 3,000 cases a year, and Chinese mainland only do more than 10,000 cases a year.

"The amount of diabetic weight loss surgery in China-Japan Friendship Hospital is the first in the country, my personal surgical volume has accumulated more than 6,000 cases, and the annual surgical volume of our center is 800-1000 cases, with the expansion of beds, the amount of surgery will reach 1500-2000 cases next year." Within a year or two, the number of surgeries will increase significantly. Meng Hua said.

Meng Hua stressed that although surgery is important, behind the operation is actually a solid backing of a whole-process, multidisciplinary team to serve patients, only in this way can we ensure good surgical safety. For example, "A dietitian tells you how much water to drink every day, what color the urine is, how to manage problems, how much insulin to take when the blood sugar is not normal, and how to go to the expert for review after a week." To change lifestyles, to change the way you eat, and most importantly, to get patients healthy. Beauty is important, health is more important. ”

On the same day, in response to diabetic weight loss surgery, orthodontics, facial repair, etc., Wang Yansen, director of the party office and director of the Publicity Department of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, said that in recent years, some medical institutions without corresponding qualifications have emerged, in order to attract customers, make profits, mislead consumers, and cause great harm to consumers' physical and mental health. The treatment of diseases and the maintenance of health require the participation of both doctors and patients, and doctors have the responsibility to explain health knowledge to patients, so that patients can be healthier and more actively participate in the treatment system, so as to understand the outcome of treatment and better obtain health knowledge, cooperate with doctors to treat, and achieve the best results.

Wang Yansen said that as a public hospital, the China-Japan Friendship Hospital has done the following work in science popularization:

First, vigorously support and encourage medical staff to participate in the development of science popularization: first, open a hospital public account on a platform with a large audience; second, encourage and support more than 50 departments of the hospital to open a science popularization number; third, select experts to participate in television, Internet platforms, new media and on-site health science popularization activities.

Second, various departments and medical personnel carry out various forms of colorful science popularization activities. For example, long-term follow-up and telephone tracking of inpatients, long-term management of chronic patients, and standardized health science popularization in accordance with the diagnosis and treatment routines and postoperative requirements of Sino-Japanese hospitals.

Third, make full use of the Internet to strengthen the ability of grassroots doctors to popularize science. The China-Japan Friendship Hospital has many specialties and specialized medical associations, including the well-known respiratory, tumor, anorectal and other medical associations, which cover the second level, prefectural and municipal to grass-roots hospitals through the medical association, and disseminate relevant medical knowledge through the network.

Wang Yansen also said that the above measures are aimed at more timely, effective and correct ways to allow patients to obtain health science knowledge through multiple channels, meet the public's demand for health science, and achieve timeliness.

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