Obesity Surgery’s Benefits Extend to Next Generation
Pregnancies after the operation yield healthier children
By Nathan Seppa, Science News
Children born to women who have achieved drastic weight loss through stomach surgery are healthier than children born to severely obese moms, a new study shows. The findings suggest that obesity creates an unhealthy environment for a fetus that has ramifications later on, scientists report in the November Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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“This is very important work,” says Dana Dabelea, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Colorado–Denver and the Colorado School of Public Health in Aurora. “This is the first proof that exposure to obesity in utero is associated with long-term effects,” she says.
Severely obese women should be encouraged to lose weight before becoming pregnant, asserts study coauthor John Kral, a surgeon at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Obese women who are interested in having kids and getting weight-loss surgery at some point in their lives should get the surgery first, he says.
Kral collaborated with researchers at University of Laval in Quebec City in contacting 49 women who had given birth and had also undergone a specific type of obesity surgery. About half of the women had one child before surgery and another child after.
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As a group, the children born after surgery scored better on a host of medical tests. Blood tests revealed that those born after surgery had healthier levels of leptin and ghrelin, hormones that regulate appetite. These children also used insulin more efficiently. This hormone regulates how cells process sugars, and children born to women after weight-loss surgery had less evidence of insulin resistance, which can a precursor to diabetes.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/09/02/obesity-surgerys-benefits-extend-to-next-generation.htmlWell there we go, your obesity is harming someone else (second hand obesity). Time to regulate and ban things :rofl:
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