Obesity: Assessing the long-term outcomes of bariatric surgery in adolescents (Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism)

Obesity, and its associated comorbidities, is increasingly prevalent in adolescents. Whereas the use of bariatric surgery in adults with obesity is fairly well established, long-term data on the use of this procedure in adolescents have been lacking. Now, two studies published in the Lancet Diabetes