Weight-loss surgery is becoming more common among US teens



Extra teenagers with weight problems are getting weight-loss surgical procedures 12 months over 12 months within the U.S., a brand new evaluation suggests.

The research, printed Tuesday (Could 30) within the journal JAMA Pediatrics, targeted on a time interval earlier than and after the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a 2019 coverage assertion saying that teenagers with extreme weight problems wanted higher entry to weight-loss surgical procedures as a result of life-style interventions aren’t very profitable in serving to this group lose and maintain weight off within the long-term.