Adolescents Benefit from Bariatric Surgery

Adolescents with severe obesity and various comorbidities presented favorable safety outcomes after bariatric surgery, according to initial data from the Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery Study. After 30 days, 19 patients (7.9%) displayed 20 major complications, and 36 patients (14.9%) displayed 47 minor complications. However, there were no deaths reported. "These data demonstrated that 92% of the 242 severely obese adolescents who underwent weight-loss surgery did so without major complications," researchers wrote. Inge TH. JAMA Pediatr. 2013;doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.4296.