Weight-loss surgery can break a family's cycle of obesity
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 11:28
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. This new study has been accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism...