ESPEYB15 11 Obesity and Weight Regulation Bariatric surgery – new findings (2 abstracts)
University of Colorado, Denver, and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
To read the full abstract: Int J Obes (Lond). 2018 Jan;42(1):102-107
This cohort of n=50 adolescents who underwent bariatric surgery is highly important, since such long-term follow-up data are rare. Until today, only this study cohort described here by Ryder et al. and the Swedish nationwide study (AMOS) of adolescents with severe obesity who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (3) have such long-term data for weight/BMI development and provide the opportunity to study why adolescents maintain or regain weight after bariatric surgery. Here, Ryder et al. found no significant differences in weight-related and eating behavior, health responsibility, physical activity/inactivity, or dietary habits at FAB-5+ visit between long-term maintainers and re-gainers. Of importance is the result of significant differences in overall QOL and QOL sub-domain scores between maintainers and re-gainers. Long-term maintainers had better QOL than re-gainers at FAB-5+ visit. A limitation is that they have no information on weight-related and eating behavior, health responsibility, physical activity/inactivity, dietary habits or QOL before bariatric surgery (baseline). Further studies should collect such information at baseline to identify which baseline factors determine the subsequent long-term outcomes after bariatric surgery in adolescents.
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