Background: Severe obesity among adolescent shows a worrisome trend in regard to its
increasing prevalence and poses a great challenge for treatment. Conservative measures …

Severe obesity in adolescence profoundly impacts health and social well-being. Lifestyle
modifications are seldom successful in maintaining sufficient weight loss to mitigate the risk …

Adolescent obesity has markedly increased worldwide in both its extent and prevalence in
recent decades and obesity prevention strategies are failing. As a result, effective treatment …

Severe obesity in adolescence negatively impacts upon health and wellbeing. Lifestyle
modifications do not usually achieve a sufficient degree or durability of weight loss to …

Introduction: Rates of severe obesity in adolescents have increased at an alarming rate.
Unfortunately, there are limited successful treatments for severe obesity in adolescents …

Background Nowadays, childhood obesity is literally a global pandemic health problem.
According to current data, pediatric obesity is strongly associated with adult excess weight …

Extreme obesity is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a body
mass index (BMI) higher than 120% of the 95th percentile for age. Four to six percent of …

Abstract Purpose of Review The prevalence of obesity is increasing in all age groups.
Following its success in adults, and with limited success using conservative therapies …

Conventional nonsurgical management of severe obesity in the pediatric population and
adolescents has focused on a multidisciplinary approach involving diet, exercise, behavioral …

Background Obesity in pediatric and adolescent population has reached a universal
pandemic. This study aimed to summarize the literature on the longest available outcome of …