Researchers uncover health disparities in childhood obesity and access to treatments

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) The use of bariatric surgery to treat severe obesity in adolescents, and the racial disparities in access to that treatment, were analyzed in a retrospective study published in Annals of Surgery by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
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