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ey0017.11-14 | New Insight into Bariatric Surgery | ESPEYB17

11.14. Five-year outcomes of gastric bypass in adolescents as compared with adults

TH Inge , AP Courcoulas , TM Jenkins , MP Michalsky , ML Brandt , SA Xanthakos , JB Dixon , CM Harmon , MK Chen , C Xie , ME Evans , MA Helmrath

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...

ey0016.11-13 | Treatment of Severe Obesity: Next Steps | ESPEYB16

11.13. Five-year outcomes of gastric bypass in adolescents as compared with adults

TH Inge , AP Courcoulas , TM Jenkins , MP Michalsky , ML Brandt , SA Xanthakos , JB Dixon , CM Harmon , MK Chen , C Xie , ME Evans , MA Helmrath , Teen-LABS Consortium

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...