Narrow Window Of Opportunity To Reverse Obesity With Surgery In Teens

More medical malpractice and medical child abuse, IMHO, on top of parental nutritional child abuse.

"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 that 'Current guidelines for adolescent weight loss surgery suggest that we begin to consider surgery only after a teen is 80-100 percent overweight. Our new data show that when we intervene when a patient is between 100 and 150 percent over ideal weight, we can expect successfully resolution of obesity. But by the time the teen is 200 percent over their ideal weight for age, the surgery will reduce their weight substantially, but many of the patients will still remain morbidly obese.'"

These law-breaking mandatory reporters and the others complicit in fattening these kids up for the kill (e.g., teachers, principals), wait until the kids are hugely overweight to make a buck surgerizing them instead of reporting the child abuse to the authorities.

Shameful.