Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents Improves Obesity-Related Diseases Within First Two Years

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

Doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital who perform weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery) on adolescents took a look at their patient population in a retrospective study published in the January 2012 print edition of Pediatric Blood & Cancer. They found that their patients had experienced a significant loss of excess body weight and showed improvement in many obesity-related diseases within the first one to two years following surgery.

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