Lap band weight loss surgery reduces teens' risk factors for heart disease, diabetes

Friday, June 12, 2009 - 11:42 in Health & Medicine

In teenagers, laparoscopic gastric banding surgery for treatment of extreme obesity can significantly improve and even reverse the metabolic syndrome, a new study found. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C....

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