In part two of our article on bariatric surgery in teens, Dr. Jeffrey Zitsman answers questions about the safety and efficacy of bariatric surgery, age requirements for surgery, and how the program at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center works.
Dr. Jeffrey Zitsman discusses weight loss surgery operations for obese teenagers who have not had success losing weight with diet and lifestyle modifications.
People with metabolic syndrome are twice as likely to develop heart disease, and five times as likely to develop diabetes, as those who don't have metabolic syndrome. But many people are not yet familiar with this relatively new term. Do you know what metabolic syndrome is?
