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Gastric reduction surgery can control blood sugar

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Gastric bypass is a type of surgery that is done by cutting the intestine or stomach shrink. This procedure is usually done to overcome weight problems. Researchers recently found that this operation not only helps reduce weight but also controls blood sugar.

Researchers found that gastric bypass surgery procedure changing hormones and amino acids that are produced during the digestion process. This surgery can eliminate the symptoms of type two diabetes in patients, researchers said.

In gastric bypass surgery, the stomach is separated into two parts. Food will be distributed on a smaller part so that people will be already feel full and eat less food. The study looked at four women who underwent gastric bypass surgery. During surgery, a catheter is inserted in a larger part of the stomach in patients.

After surgery, the researchers distributed food through a catheter in the stomach of the hormones produced and analyzed. The results were then compared with the activity of the hormone when food is included in the smaller part of the stomach.

The results revealed that the level of insulin and other hormones produced higher when food is digested in the stomach smaller. Amino acid levels were also higher in the small stomach, while the lower fatty acid levels.

Increased hormones, especially insulin, when the digestive process causes the patient to more easily control their blood sugar, researchers said. although this study found that gastric bypass surgery can alter the production of hormones and relieve symptoms of diabetes, but researchers found no causal link.

"This operation is an effective weapon against obesity, as a side effect of this operation can also relieve the symptoms of type 2 diabetes," said Nils Wierup, professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden, as reported by U.S. News.

Yet researchers do not advise diabetic patients to perform gastric bypass. Researchers hope that this discovery could help them find new ways to handle the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Women smokers at higher risk of colon cancer taxable

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Women smokers at higher risk of colon cancer taxable
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Women smokers at higher risk of colon cancer taxable - The link between smoking and lung cancer has long been known. Now researchers also found that smoking may increase the risk of colon cancer, especially in women.

Women who never smoked had a 20 percent higher risk of developing colon cancer compared with women who had never smoked. Meanwhile, the more cigarettes each day exhausted, increase a woman's risk of developing colon cancer.

"Women who smoked up to 10 cigarettes a day increase their risk of developing colon cancer," said lead researcher Dr. Inger Gram, a professor from the University of Tromso in Norway, as reported by U.S. News.

The results found by researchers after observing more than 600,000 men and women, aged between 19 0 67 years at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Participants were asked to answer questions about their smoking habits, physical activity, and other lifestyle factors.

Been observed for more than 14 years, approximately 4,000 people are known to have colon cancer. Participants were exposed to colon cancer is most smokers, especially women. In women smokers, the risk of colon cancer increased by 19 percent, while only eight percent in men.

The longer a woman smokes, the younger he started smoking, and the more cigarettes that are used every year, the higher a woman's risk of developing colon cancer. Even women who had smoked for 40 years has increased the risk by 50 percent.

Even so researchers do not know the obvious reason why cigarettes greater effect on women than men. The only way you can do to protect yourself is to stop smoking as soon as possible. The researcher explained that cigarettes only give poison to the body and can not provide benefits.

Can Prostate Cancer Be Seen in Prostatic Hypertrophy Manifestation?

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Many people have considered prostatic hypertrophy closely related to prostate cancer. This type of manifestation, also known as BHP - Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, is represented by an enlarged prostate and scientifically speaking there was no link to connect this enlarged prostate to the apparition of prostate cancer.
 
But this is not a very reassuring fact because other reactions can evolve from here. The nodules become large enough to cause obstruction of the urethra (sometimes almost a complete obstruction) interfering with the normal flow of urine. This will further lead to painful act of urination and increased risks of presenting infections at the urinary tract level.
 
 
One thing that has linked this condition to prostate cancer is that both of them might present the same symptoms. The danger here is that people will avoid doing the medical checking thinking they have an enlarged prostate when in fact this can be a form of cancer.
 
But as the human nature is on many occasions when it comes to consult doctors, people run away from this responsibility that they owe it to themselves. More than this, the inconvenience of the medical check up in this case is not on everybody's liking. This consultation involves having a finger covered with a rubber glove placed into that orifice which is normally used for throwing out the feces.
 
But regardless of this inconvenience, whenever the symptoms manifest indicating that there is something wrong with your prostate, you should have this organ consulted by a specialist doctor. These Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia symptoms that are similar with the ones developed by prostate cancer condition are:
 
  • Presenting problems upon urinating.
  • The need to urinate every few minutes.
  • The urine stream is weak.
  • There is also that incontinence presented as an uncontrollably urination; you can bet that this is not a very nice image with your pants getting wet from a tiny leakage.
  • There is as well an acute feeling of a sting when you urinate.
  • Apart from all these, as if to top them all, you will present a decreased tendency towards having sexual intercourse.
 
Well, there are many other more symptoms added to these ones, but for the time being it is good to know only a few of them which can draw your attention that something is wrong with your prostate. You've better have it checked on time to make sure that this one doesn't degenerate into a prostate cancer.
 

 

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