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Despite the arrival of powerful new anti-obesity medications and growing evidence supporting weight-loss surgery for adolescents, the vast majority of eligible teens are receiving neither treatment, according to a Northwestern Medicine study. “The motivation behind our paper in JAMA Pediatrics was to look at the relationship between two exciting developments in the treatment of obesity and adolescence,” said first author, Dr John B Rode, a fourth-year resident physician at An

Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, led by Dr Vance Albaugh and lead author of the study, have reported that patients with extreme obesity are more common among those undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery than previously recognised. However, although they face a greater burden of certain health conditions and surgical complications, their overall surgical risk remains relatively low, according to the study. Figure 1: Credit- PBRC Comorbidity burden of M

Hispanic-Latino individuals experience some of the highest obesity rates in the US compared to other ethnic groups, but have far lower...

A study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and...

Expanding the capacity of bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) capacity in England beyond a small proportion of the eligible population...

Welcome to our weekly round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...

Bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) is the most durable and effective treatment for weight loss, yet only one percent of currently...

Access to weight management (WM) interventions in England has not improved over the last ten years despite obesity rates continuing to...

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has urged the Australian Government to increase access to bariatric surgeries to help...

Patients do not have to attempt weight loss by before referral to bariatric surgery, according to updated guidance issued by the National...