More obese adolescents turning to surgery
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NEW YORK  - In the current decade, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of obese adolescents having surgery to help them lose weight, although weight loss surgery remains an uncommonly performed procedure in young people.
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NEW YORK  - Six months after spraining an  ankle, overweight and obese children are more likely than their  peers to still have pain, swelling or weakness, new study  findings indicate.
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Adolescents are less likely to suffer complications from obesity surgery than adults, a reassuring finding because little had been known about the risk facing the small but growing number of teens who opt for it, researchers said on Thursday.
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A study found weight-loss surgery better than standard medical therapy in treating Type 2 diabetes in the obese.
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Troubled by enlarged male breasts, boys are turning to surgery. Waiting may be wiser.
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The prevalence of obesity is rising faster among adults in New Jersey than in neighboring states, and has hit an ominous 20 percent among the state's sixth-graders, according to a Rutgers University researcher.
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About 1 million US teenagers have high blood pressure, high blood-sugar levels or other conditions that may put them at risk of heart disease later in life, according to an American Heart Association report.
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An unusually high number of patients who undergo surgery to stem obesity are suffering from nerve damage, according to a new study.
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Obesity in adolescence is  associated with reduced heart function and excessive cardiac  mass, according to a new study.
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The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen as more than 10 per cent of US children ages two to five are overweight, the American Heart Association has reported.
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Adolescents are less likely to  suffer complications from obesity surgery than adults, a  reassuring finding because little had been known about the risk  facing the small but growing number of teens who opt for it,  researchers said on Thursday.
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The nutritional disorder, beriberi -- caused by lack of vitamin B1 in the diet -- can appear in teens who have undergone gastric bypass surgery for severe obesity.
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Highly obese women are 12 times more likely to have diabetes or knee replacement surgery, and five times more likely to have high blood pressure than women who are at a normal weight, says a new study.
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Older American teenagers living in poverty have grown fatter at a higher rate than their peers, according to research that seems to underscore the unequal burden of obesity on the nation&#039;s poor.
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GASTRIC surgery is a more effective way to fight severe obesity than dieting, according to a Swedish study quoted today. The researchers found people who had surgery bypassing their large intestine were 23
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Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 22 million children under five years old are obese or overweight, and more than 17 million of them are in developing countries.
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Obese children as young as 7 already  have the beginnings of artery disease, Italian and U.S.  researchers reported on Monday.