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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Inge, Thomas H
• Courcoulas, Anita P
• Jenkins, Todd M
• Michalsky, Marc P
• Helmrath, Michael A
• Brandt, Mary L
• Harmon, Carroll M
• Zeller, Meg H
• Chen, Mike K
• Xanthakos, Stavra A
• Horlick, Mary
• Buncher, C. Ralph

Titel

Weight Loss and Health Status 3 Years after Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2016-01, Vol.374 (2), p.113-123

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this study, adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery were followed for 3 years. They had improvements in weight, cardiometabolic health, and quality of life, but some micronutrient deficiencies developed, and some participants underwent additional abdominal procedures. Severe obesity affects 4.4 million children and adolescents in the United States, 1 and few effective treatments are available. 2 Particular concern has centered on health problems among severely obese adolescents and possible treatment with bariatric surgery. 3 Indeed, adolescent bariatric surgical case volumes doubled from approximately 800 cases in 2003 4 to 1600 procedures in 2009. 5 Few prospective studies have examined changes in body-mass index (BMI, the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) and outcomes of the currently used surgical procedures, and little is known about clinical events after bariatric surgery in adolescents. 6 , 7 To address important . . .