2009 Diet Of The Year

Will the Use of Gastric Bands be Expanded to Teens? HealthNews

27.07.10

, Found that gastric band surgery produces significantly more weight loss in obese teens aged 14-17 than diet and exercise alone. In the two-year study, the surgery group lost an average of 76.2 pounds, while the lifestyle intervention group lost 6.6 pounds. In other words, 84 percent of the gastric band group lost more than half of their excess weight, compared to just 12 percent of the lifestyle group. Senior study author Dr. Paul E. O’Brien called the results “highly successful.”

“Adolescents are as deserving as adults when it comes to accessing clinical interventions that work,” Professor Susan Sawyer, co-author of the study, said. “Until we can find more successful behavioral and medical approaches to treat those with severe obesity, the results of the study unequivocally favor lap-banding in terms of weight loss and therefore are really suggesting that it needs to at least be considered.”

Researchers Sue Kimm of the University of New Mexico, Debbie Lawlor of Britain's Bristol University and Joan Han of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, suggest that weight-loss surgery should be considered with extreme caution and only in the most obese who had exhausted all other avenues. And the argument is heating up, pitting the cautious medical community against business interests.

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