Kids Tolerate Obesity Surgery Better Than Adults

In the past, we have written about obesity surgery in teens / adolescents. New evidence suggests that adolescents tolerate obesity surgery better than adults do. An article at MSNBC explains that adolescents are less prone to complications of weight loss surgery.

According to the article:

“[Researchers] compared post-surgical complications in 55,192 obese patients age 18 and older who had various types of bariatric surgery for weight loss with those in 309 obese patients ages 12 to 18 who underwent the procedures. About 5.5 percent of the adolescents had complications within 30 days of surgery, none of them fatal. By comparison, nearly 10 percent of the adults experienced complications, 0.2 percent fatal, according to the study presented at a meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery in San Diego.”

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