The association between weight change after gastric cancer surgery and type 2 diabetes risk: A nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although gastric cancer patients generally experience drastic weight decrease post-gastrectomy, the impact of weight decrease on type 2 diabetes risk remains unclear. We investigated the type 2 diabetes risk after gastric cancer surgery according to postoperative weight decrease in gastric cancer survivors in South Korea, the country with the world's highest rate of gastric cancer survival.

Methods

This retrospective nationwide cohort study included gastric cancer surgery recipients between 2004 and 2014 who survived for ≥5 years post-surgery. We included patients without a history of diabetes at the time of surgery and those who had not received adjuvant chemotherapy before or after the surgery. Postoperative weight loss was defined as the per cent body weight lo

SUBMITTER: Kwon Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10067472 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature