Weight-loss Surgery Can Break A Family's Cycle Of Obesity

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 09:28 in Health & Medicine

Adolescent and young children of obese mothers who underwent weight-loss surgery prior to pregnancy have been found to have a lower prevalence of obesity and significantly improved cardio-metabolic markers when compared to siblings born before the same obese mothers had weight-loss surgery.

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