Does Bariatric Surgery Reduce CVD Risk Factors in Adolescents?

Does Bariatric Surgery Reduce CVD Risk Factors in Adolescents?

Adolescents who undergo bariatric surgery may experience a decrease in cardiovascular disease risk factors (CVD-RF), according to a study published in Pediatrics.

A positive result of Bariatric surgery is a decrease in Cardio Vascular Disease Risk Factors. From a very simplistic way of looking at it it is obvious that if you lose weight, one way or another, you are going to decrease your Cardio Vascular Disease Risk Factors. Weight loss is also the reason type 2 diabetics can control their diabetes after Bariatric surgery.

Researchers performed a teenager longitudinal assessment (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00474318) on 242 adolescents (76% female, 72% white) who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, vertical sleeve gastrectomy, and adjustable gastric banding (n=161, 67, and 14, respectively) to determine whether severely obese adolescents who underwent bariatric surgery experienced an improvement in CVD-RF.

Study results found “increasing weight loss was an independent predictor of normalization in dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure (EBP), hyperinsulinemia, diabetes, and elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein.”