Obesity Surgery For Diabetes

Gastric bypass surgery may help teenagers with type 2 diabetes. A small study compared 11 teens who had the surgery with 67 teens who didn’t. Those who had the surgery lost about one-third of their body weight. Those who didn’t lost almost no weight. One year later, the teens who had the surgery had no signs of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes can lead to kidney, heart, and eye problems. HealthDay News wrote about the study December 29. It appears in the January issue of the journal Pediatrics.