PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Buckley, Rita
ED  - O'Brien, Paul
TI  - Pediatric Weight Loss Surgery: Is it Time?
DP  - 2011 Sep 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 32--33
VI  - 11
IP  - 8
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/8/32.2.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/8/32.2.full
AB  - Over the past 20 years, the rate of obesity or overweightedness (>95th percentile for age and gender) has doubled among children and tripled among adolescents, affecting more than 5 million of them in the United States alone [O'Brien PE et al. JAMA 2010]. To date, there are no medical therapies that provide significant and durable weight loss [Barnett SJ. Curr Opin Pediatr 2011].