Weight-loss surgeries, long used by obese adults to drop excess pounds, may provide long-lasting health benefits to very obese teenagers, a new study finds.
The study of extremely obese teens found that, three years after either gastric bypass surgery or a procedure called sleeve gastrectomy, the average patient had lost 27 percent of his or her original weight. What's more, many also showed remission of obesity -linked ills such as type 2 diabetes , high blood pressure and high cholesterol .
"We found significant improvements in weight, cardiometabolic health and weight-
related quality of life at three years after the [weight-loss] procedure," wrote a team
led by Dr. Thomas Inge, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Source: webmd.com
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