Status and future of metabolic surgery in China / 中华消化外科杂志

ABSTRACT

With the rapid development of China's economy,obesity and diabetes have become a serious social problem.Metabolic surgery has grown mature abroad,while it started relatively late in China.There is obvious lack of operative indications,mode and procedure,preventions of complications,perioperative management and follow-up in the early time.To standardize nationwide surgical treatment of diabetes,to make the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with the best way,to reduce the incidence of postoperative complications,the domestic famous experts assembled by the Branch of Obesity and Diabetes Surgeons Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association composed the Surgical Treatment Guidance of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in China (2014).Metabolic surgery rapidly be popularized across the country.The number of surgery is rising year by year,especially making further standardization of operative indications and modes.Many academic meetings are conveyed to promote the discipline to develop,and provide the communication platform for metabolic surgeons.The future development of metabolic surgery will be accompanied by technological progress,equipment updates,operation excellence and continuous improvement.