2010-2019, National Health Insurance Corporation data analysis and research on 160,000 people
Cholecystectomy has a higher probability than obesity, causing diabetes… Obesity 24%, cholecystectomy 29%
Cholecystectomy patients have a 20% increased risk of developing diabetes
Obese people who had a cholecystectomy had a 41% higher risk of developing diabetes than those who did not.
Studies have shown that patients who have had a cholecystectomy have a higher risk of developing diabetes.
In particular, people at low risk of developing diabetes (young, not obese, and without hypertensive metabolic syndrome) who underwent cholecystectomy had a markedly higher risk of developing diabetes.
Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital Endocrinology Department Professor Kang Joon-gu and Heo Ji-hye, Hallym Dongtan University Sacred Heart Hospital Gastroenterology Department Professor Lee Gyeong-ju, Actuarial Department Soongsil University Information Statistics Department Professor Han Kyung-do and their research team published the thesis, ‘Cholecystectomy increases the risk of type 2 diabetes in the Korean population)’.
To date, there have been no large-scale studies that have followed the risk of developing diabetes in patients undergoing cholecystectomy for a long period of time.
Accordingly, the research team followed a group (55,166 people) who had a cholecystectomy between 2010 and 2015 and a group (110,332 people) who were of the same gender and age but did not have a cholecystectomy until 2019, and found no difference in the number of cases of diabetes, investigate whether there is
As a result, it was confirmed that those who had a cholecystectomy faced a 20% higher risk of developing diabetes compared to those who did not.
In addition, they found that the increased risk of developing diabetes due to cholecystectomy (29% increased risk) was greater than the increased risk of developing diabetes due to obesity (the most important risk factor for diabetes) (24% increased risk). In other words, the risk of developing diabetes due to cholecystectomy is greater than obesity.
Specifically, obese people who had a cholecystectomy had up to a 41% higher risk of developing diabetes than non-obese people who did not have a cholecystectomy.
The degree to which the risk of developing diabetes increased in the cholecystectomy group was higher than in those with major risk factors for diabetes (obesity, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, old age, metabolic syndrome, and impaired fasting glucose) was more pronounced in people.
Professor Kang Joon-goo said, “This study clinically proves the theory that the gallbladder is an organ that plays an important role in maintaining the body’s metabolism. Therefore, those who have had a cholecystectomy must continuously monitor their blood sugar.”
The study was published in the latest issue of ‘Annals of Surgery (IF=13.787),’ the official journal of the American Academy of Surgery.
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