Dr/Aud Al-Qatani: Slimming operations in Saudi Arabia become a fashion

  In light of the high incidence of "obesity" and the associated chronic diseases, resorting to weight loss by traditional methods is no longer an effective solution. Today, after the relative accretion of awareness, the desire of many increased to get rid of obesity by fastest and easiest ways, even by conducting operations and surgeries to lose weight, which ensure to decrease of more than about 70% of the weight within two years.

The "quantization," is considered the most common operation in the world, which achieves excellent results with low complication rate compared with other operations, but these operations may become a danger to life, if performed without matching its indications.

The increase in the proportion of "obesity" in Saudi society requires the adoption of a national project to recognize it as a priority health problem, as well as to decrease the vulnerability of our sons and daughters to the high-calorie dishes, in addition to providing sports activities and specialized centers in all the regions and support it from the secretariats and municipalities.

Field survey

" Prof aaúd AL Qahtani" –professor and consultant of obesity surgery and endoscopes said-: The global rise in weight gain and obesity reached pandemic phase, adding that according to 1432 year estimates, weight gain and obesity caused the death of more than (3.4) million people a year, and the deaths are attributed to complications resulting from the complications of increase in the weight such as chronic diseases and incurable angina pectoris, stroke, adding that a field survey of all regions of the kingdom is done, in which more than 20 thousand citizens,  and have found that obesity rates has reached an advanced stage (80%), indicating that for children and young people global studies has revealed that obesity rate is significantly increased among children and adolescents in the world, where it arrived (50%) of (35 years) years, saying that weight loss surgery is the only solution for patients with severe obesity, which can decrease the rate of about 70% of excess weight within two years, pointing out that most of those performing these operations are women.

 " Prof aaúd AL Qahtani" explained  that They analyzed ,at the obesity clinic the, recovery rate of the diseases associated with obesity in children and young people after weight-loss operations, and concluded that the cure rate of these diseases reaches up to (95%) – god wishes, adding that there is an increase in the demand for weight loss operations in recent years, saying it makes sense in light of the high incidence of obesity locally and globally, noting that he attributed the high demand for obesity surgery to the growth of the community's awareness of the harmful effects of obesity and its impact on public health in absence of any therapeutic means, saying that the development of laparoscopic surgical technique is another reason for the high proportion of operations, as technology has contributed to reducing surgical complications and reduce the recovery period, indicating that embarking on such operations requires fully awareness by the patient and full education about the procedures  by  the medical team for everything related to the benefits and risks ..

"Dr.abdarahman Salem"  general surgery and laparoscopic surgery consultant at Specialist Medical Center in Riyadh, stressed on the scary prevalence of obesity disease,  adding that the main reason for the spread is due to the lazy life pattern and increasing high fast food intake accompanied by lack of movement and lack of exercise, indicating that it may be other reasons that cause obesity either genetic or slow burn of energy in the body, which is called slow metabolic rate, in addition to that there may be hormone disorder in the body such as lack of secretion of thyroid or adrenal glands, explaining that the health risks resulting from excess weight and obesity are too many as there is no cell or organ of body not negatively affected by obesity, hence the importance of surgical intervention and operations of weight loss, which may be as a life-saving if problems and complications of obesity  reached limit may lead to death of obese person who suffers from sleep apnea syndrome, diabetes or hypertension or infertility or severe arthritis and movement, saying that the cure rate of obesity may be as high as (80%) – god willing - with appropriate surgical intervention.

"Dr. Ali blocker" - general surgery and laparoscopic surgery consultant - saying that the rate of incidence of obesity in the Kingdom and the Gulf States are the highest in the world today, and worse than that, childhood obesity is the highest in our communities, adding: "patient must understand two important points. first; the operation isn't the only factor for the loss of weight and is not everything, and the second factor is: operations like any other medical procedure has complications and problems, and if they are not controlled, the results will be useless "noting that" the balloon process " is safe, but it depends mainly on the extent of patient commitment of food program, saying that "the stomach belt operations," -was spread four years again before – but now it is not recommended by many doctors; because high failure rate after following up a lot of cases, stressing that "the longitudinal shear of the stomach" or "quantization " operations  are the most common now, pointing out that some patients are putting pressure on the doctor to perform the surgery without engaging in weight loss programs, although there are those who are keen to adhere to internationally accepted norms in the treatment of this disease.

He added that the operation costs are very high, especially when we talk about the use of the latest technology and devices, medical care needed by the patient before, during and after the operation, which thankfully are available at most of medical centers in the Kingdom, noting that prices remain lower than those in developed countries.

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