ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: The New England journal of medicine. 2019;380(22):2136–45.Here, Inge et al. explored whether the outcomes of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) differ according to the age of the patient at the time of surgery. They analysed retrospective data on the 5-year outcomes of RYGB in 161 adolescents from the Teen-LABS-study (1) and in 396 adults with a history...

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med. 2019;380(22):2136–2145These authors describe the 5-year follow-up of a multicenter patient cohort of adolescents with severe obesity who underwent gastric bypass surgery to lose weight and improve cardiometabolic risk factors (the Teen-LABS study; n=161, age 13–19 years at time of surgery). They compared these data with a simila...

To read the full abstract: Nat Med 2020;26(4):485–497.More than 100 medical and scientific organizations supported this international consensus statement, which describes impressively how unscientific public narratives of obesity cause weight stigma and stimulates discrimination of obese people. Consequently, the statement calls for strong policies and legislation to prevent weight-bas...