Bariatric surgery can be a justifiable treatment for teenagers with persistent extreme obesity if they can maintain a healthy lifestyle afterward, a new study reports.<\/p>\n
“If we look at obesity as a disease with the real possibility of eventual organ system failure and special health concerns for adolescents, we need to ask whether health care practitioners are doing enough to manage it,” says Ahmed Khattab, a physician at the Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s pediatric endocrinology division and lead author of the paper in the Journal of Pediatrics<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n
Source: <\/em>Rutgers University<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"