Adolescent Obesity and Weight Loss Surgery

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Obesity in the United States has taken a rapid rise over the past 3 decades and is now becoming a major epidemic; extreme obesity (body mass index [BMI] > 40 kg/m 2 ) has quadrupled to 2% of the adult population from 1986 to 2000. 1 With this rise, there are more people who have developed comorbidities, who are hospitalized, and who eventually expire from diseases related to obesity. One-seventh of the cancer deaths in men and one-fifth of the deaths in women were related to obesity, 2 and obesity has become the second leading cause of death in the United States. 3

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