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ey0017.15-2 | (1) | ESPEYB17

15.2. Association of maternal gastric bypass surgery with offspring birth defects

M Neovius , B Pasternak , I Naslund , J Soderling , K Johansson , O Stephansson

To read the full abstract: JAMA. 2019 Oct 15;322(15):1515–1517. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.12925.The authors merged data from separate national Swedish registers for births and obesity surgery and identified 2921 women who had a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery between 2007 to 2014 (‘cases’) and subsequent pregnancies. Controls were identified as women without bariatric surgery ...

ey0020.9-16 | Patient Care: Bariatric Surgery, New Drugs, and Appropriate Language | ESPEYB20

9.16. Metabolic and bariatric surgery versus intensive non-surgical treatment for adolescents with severe obesity (AMOS2): a multicentre, randomised, controlled trial in Sweden

K Jarvholm , A Janson , M Peltonen , M Neovius , E Gronowitz , M Engstrom , A Laurenius , AJ Beamish , J Dahlgren , L Sjogren , T Olbers

Brief summary: The AMOS2 study is a randomized, open label, multicentre trial. It reports 2-year BMI changes in n=25 adolescents (age 13–16 years) after metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) (Roux-en-Y gastric bypass n=23, sleeve gastrectomy n=2) compared to n=23 adolescents who received intensive non-surgical treatment. After 2 years, BMI change was −12.6 kg/m2 in the MBS group compared to only −0.2 kg/m2</s...