Liposuction: Good for Overall Health?

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Something about fat seems to be just not good for you. Any Lap Band patient can tell you that, as his massive amounts of fat melts away, so do:

• High blood pressure
• Type II diabetes
• High cholesterol readings
• Heart disease

Conditions that go along with an existing health woe are known to plastic surgeons and other doctors as co-morbidities. The conditions listed above are also known as metabolic syndrome.

But what about performing liposuction on a slightly too-fat tummy to improve overall health?

Doctors are still studying it.

Some overseas researchers have found that having liposuction on a fatty tummy is a good thing and reduces the diseases and undesirable health conditions that go along with obesity.

Other researchers have studied groups of slightly overweight patients who have had liposuction and carefully followed their health. Some are good while some are not.

Now, according to a report on liposuction’s effects in the professional journal, Modern Medicine, R.V. Weber, M.D., an assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is searching the medical literature for more connections between liposuction and metabolic syndrome.

Dr. Weber and his colleagues have already done one study showing that hamsters with metabolic syndrome react favorably to removing belly fat.

But lab animal results don’t necessarily translate to human results.

Other researchers think the connection may be hidden because most liposuction is not used as a means of weight control. Instead, the procedure is used to shape and modify bodies.

That could leaves larger amounts of fat deeper in the body to cause health problems.

But we may see the day in which people routinely have liposuction to improve their general health.

admin @ September 24, 2009