Nutritional deficiencies in severely obese adolescents APAMay 8, 20149 views 3 stars Severely obese adolescents have a high risk of nutritional deficiencies - this applies for those adolescents who underwent weight loss surgery as well as for those who did not. This is the outcome of a US study presented at the annual meeting of the Paediatric Academic Societies (PAS) in Vancouver. Researchers at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center studied 79 obese adolescents, some of which had undergone bariatric surgery and others had not. Five years after surgery, subjects who had undergone gastric bypass surgery had significant weight loss, but they demonstrated low iron and vitamin D levels as well as mild anaemia. Teenagers who didnt have surgery had not lost weight, but they also had low iron and vitamin D levels and, moreover, they also had low albumin levels. We knew there were nutritional difficulties in teens who had undergone bariatric surgery, but everyone thought it was primarily the surgery that had caused these problems, says senior author Stavra Xanthakos. What this shows us is that nutritional deficiencies occur even in teens who dont undergo surgery. Severely obese patients should be screened for nutritional deficiencies, regardless of whether theyve undergone weight loss surgery.
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 04:04:55 +0000
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