80% of obesity surgery patients show deficiency
Higher ratio of vitamin B, folic acid, and iron
Obese people are aware that all the nutrients accumulated in the body will be excessive beyond the proper level, but rather, the lack of nutrients due to low physical activity and diet is tilted to one side is on the side. In fact, a study found that most of the patients who underwent obesity metabolic surgery in which a part of the stomach was cut to treat obesity were deficient in essential nutrients, including vitamin D.
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Surgery Professor Park Young-seok’s team revealed on the 6th that they confirmed this as a result of analyzing 215 people who had undergone obesity metabolic surgery at the hospital in 2019 to investigate their nutrient deficiency status.
Vitamin D was the most common nutrient deficiency before obesity metabolic surgery. 80% of all patients were’deficient’ and 14% were’insufficient’. Vitamin D is deeply related to calcium metabolism and bone density. In the case of obese patients, the risk of fracture may increase if the body weight and muscle mass are decreased after surgery, and at the same time, the bone density is decreased due to vitamin D deficiency. Even if you are not obese, lack of vitamin D in your body causes joint pain and increases your risk of developing rickets, osteomalacia, and osteoporosis. It can also cause diabetes and depression, so it is important to supplement the vitamin D level in the body so that it is not insufficient.
The recommended daily amount of vitamin D is 600 IU, so even after getting in the sun for 20 to 30 minutes without sunscreen, you can supplement your daily need. To fill the recommended amount with food alone, you need to consume 6 glasses of milk and 15 eggs every day, so it is also a way to easily supplement with 1 to 2 tablets a day using vitamin D nutritional supplements.
After vitamin D, the deficient nutrients identified in obesity metabolic surgery patients were in the order of vitamin B1 (18.3%), folic acid (14.2%), iron (11.8%), and zinc (7.6%). All four are essential nutrients, and when deficient, symptoms such as beriberi disease, anemia, and reduced immunity can occur. The research team expects the results of this study to be an important basis for establishing standard nutritional management guidelines for patients before and after obesity metabolic surgery.
Prof. Young-Seok Park explained, “If the deficiency is identified and supplemented, centering on the major deficiency nutrients in obesity metabolic surgery patients, we will be able to achieve healthy weight loss or blood sugar reduction goals while minimizing postoperative nutritional deficiencies. The results of this study were published in the international journal of the World Federation of Obesity Metabolism Surgery (Obesity Surgery). / Reporter Minjeong Kim [email protected]
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