The prevalence of adolescent obesity is approximately 21% in the US. Treatment options for adolescents with obesity include lifestyle modification therapy, pharmacotherapy, and metabolic and bariatric surgery. Intensive lifestyle modification therapy reduces BMI by approximately 3% while pharmacotherapy added to lifestyle modification therapy can attain BMI reductions ranging from 5% to 17%. Surgery is the most effective intervention for adolescents with severe obesity and has been shown to achieve BMI reduction of approximately 30%.
Keyphrases
- weight loss
- metabolic syndrome
- bariatric surgery
- weight gain
- young adults
- physical activity
- insulin resistance
- body mass index
- high fat diet induced
- type diabetes
- cardiovascular disease
- obese patients
- randomized controlled trial
- minimally invasive
- smoking cessation
- early onset
- bone marrow
- coronary artery bypass
- cell therapy
- replacement therapy