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Weight-Loss Surgery for Obese Children Should Only Be Considered in the Most Extreme Circumstances NEW YORK -- May 5, 2010 -- Weight-loss surgery should only be used in the most severely obese of children, and only then with extreme caution, according to a Seminar on childhood obesity published online first and appearing in an upcoming edition of The Lancet .
Lifestyle interventions such as diet and exercise should always be first-line therapy, with drug treatment used rarely and weight-loss surgery a last resort.
The Seminar was written by Sue Y. S. Kimm, MD, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Debbie Lawlor, MD, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; and Joan C. Han, MD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Data up to 2006 show that prevalence of childhood
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