It has been over 20 years since Prof Illouz first implemented liposuction in France and it has being studied in America as being capable of bringing great benefits for diabetic people or high blood pressure patients.
Plastic surgeon Sharon Giese, from Georgetown University, followed 14 women with corporal mass equal or superior to 27 – this is obtained by dividing the weight by the height squared. For example, the corporal mass of a woman measuring 1,60m and weighing 70kg is 27. The normal rate varies between 18 and 24,9. All women that went through liposuction had their weight reduced in 5,5kg approximately, leading their corporal mass to drop from 29,1 to 26,8.
What really impressed researchers was the drop on the level of the blood sugar. This measures the risk of a person developing diabetes. Before liposuction, 8 of the women studied were in a pre-diabetic stage. After the procedure, all women had normal levels of insulin and low blood pressure.
The complete results have not yet been announced, but Giese certifies that all patients kept the results after one year of the operation.
The researches between the relation of liposuction and blood pressure will go on.
The American government, worrying about the alarming levels of weight-related diseases, is investing large sums of money in the study of the benefits liposuction can bring to health.
It is not all clear how liposuction alters the chances of a person having diabetes; one of the theories states that fat cells have insulin receptors, and the removal of large amounts of those cells affects how the body controls insulin.
An important fact is that fat cells multiply up to puberty and after that its number is stable for the rest of life; with the surgery a great number of cells are removed explaining why people do not fatten up again in the liposuction regions.
If the studies in progress have scientific confirmation, this procedure will no longer be aesthetic but will have health implications. People will be diagnosed for a liposuction by doctors to restore good levels of sugar and blood pressure.
I have treated in my clinic over the last few year patients with joint problems that with liposuction, unpleasant pain disappears and they can walk normally again.