Source Newsroom: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Newswise — According to a recent study of clinical
characteristics of teens who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y
gastric bypass surgery from 2002 until 2007, doctors may have a
much narrower window of opportunity to reverse morbid obesity in
teens than previously thought. The study, conducted at
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, appears in the
current online edition of the Journal of Pediatrics. The study
focused on 61 teens who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric
bypass at Cincinnati Children’s. The results of the study showed
that one year after the study, BMI in the overall group of teens
pre-surgery decreased by 37 percent, however because of their
starting weights, the teens were still considered to be morbidly
obese. This means that doctors can predict what a patient’s
weight will be one-year post weight loss surgery. Lead author of
the study, Thomas Inge, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery
and Pediatrics, explains tha