Interview with Mr Pratik Sufi, Consultant bariatric surgeon, Whittington Hospital, London, England.
Health chat with Dr Anthony R Leeds
Interview with Mr Pratik Sufi, Consultant bariatric surgeon, Whittington Hospital, London, England.
The global scale of obesity and obesity related diseases is huge and ever increasing. There are over 650 million people with obesity and a further 1.3 billion people with overweight and 10.5% of the global adult population have diabetes. In the light of the vast numbers of people affected and the huge potential costs borne by health-care providers many proven methods of providing help to people with obesity are needed. These methods need to be effective, have a known safety profile and be cost-effective. Broadly these include safe, scientifically proven dietary methods, similarly safe and proven drug treatments, and surgical treatments, all delivered with effective lifestyle exercise, behavioural and psychological support.
In this second episode Mr Sufi, a London-based bariatric surgeon with whom Dr Leeds worked for a number of years, discussed the evidence for long term benefit following bariatric surgery – the extension of life expectancy and reduced risk of developing diabetes as well as symptom improvement in osteoarthritis and sleep apnoea.
Mr Sufi noted that bariatric surgery was shown to be cost-effective particularly in people with recently diagnosed diabetes in whom health-care cost savings can be shown by three years after surgery.
The previous episode can be seen at this Link:
Weblinks to useful resources are given below.
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International Diabetes Federation
Diabetes-facts-figures
UK
Weight-loss-surgery
Surgery
Canada
Bariatric-surgery
Pakistan
Bariatric-surgery
India
Abdominal obesity and surgical management
Malaysia see page 55
CPG_Management_of_Obesity
Singapore
Bariatric-and-metabolic-surgery
Hong Kong
Weight-management-and-metabolic-surgery-clinic
English
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