Primary Care: Pediatricians Urge Greater Access to Surgery for Severely Obese Youth

As childhood obesity becomes an “epidemic within an epidemic,” new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics echoes Endocrine Society recommendations on bariatric surgery for severely obese young people. Aside from reducing their weight, these procedures could benefit young people well into adulthood. Improved access to bariatric surgery is “urgently needed” for the severely obese […]

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