Bariatric Surgery in Youth and Adolescents: The Experience of an Outpatient Obesity Clinic in a Central Hospital in Portugal (original) (raw)
Obesity in children and adolescents is a huge Public Health burden. Lifestyle modification interventions in in some youth with severe obesity show only marginal effectiveness. As a result of the significant prevalence rate of severe comorbidities and substantial long-term health risks associated with pediatric obesity, bariatric surgery has emerged as an option for adolescents with severe obesity and/or serious weight-related comorbidities who have experienced insufficient responses with other treatments. Weight loss surgery should be conducted in the context of a multidisciplinary program. The purposes of this report were to analyze retrospectively the impact of bariatric surgery in body mass index (BMI) and improvements of comorbidities in severely obese adolescents followed at the Obesity Pediatric Outpatient Clinic of Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte (CHLN) between 2012-2016. Twelve adolescents underwent bariatric procedure during this period. The most prevalent comorbidities were...
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