A532 Expelling Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Barriers

Since the 1970s, obesity amongst adolescents has tripled, affecting 1 in every 5 children, yet these patients experience significant delays to bariatric surgery. Our retrospective analysis aims to identify factors that create an extended latency period from an adolescent ’s initial bariatric surgery appointment to the day their surgery is performed. Between 2017-2018, we identified 33 patients with a mean age of 18 +/- 1 years old, 85% females (n=28) and 15% males (n=5). 26 underwent a sleeve gastrectomy, while 7 had a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass with pre-operative B MIs averaging 47.22 +/- 7.9.

Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - September 30, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Sree Kolli, Srilaxmi Gujjula, Javier Escovar, Joseph Chindo, Monica Michalowski, Melanie Howell, Pratibha Vemulapalli Source Type: research