ea0051oc7.6 | Oral Communications 7 | BSPED2017
Polenok IA
, Chapman SA
, Kapoor RR
, Prince A
, Desai AP
, Ford-Adams ME
Childhood obesity is a serious public health challenge. Bariatric surgery is gaining popularity as a treatment modality for severely obese adolescents.Backgrounds: To report the safety and 1 year outcome data on morbidly obese adolescents that underwent bariatric surgery at a tertiary hospital in the UK.Methods: A retrospective review of patients (mean preoperative BMI 50.4 kg/m2; mean BMI SDS +4.2) who underwent bariatr...