Background: Patients with morbid obesity have an increased risk for anxiety and depression. The "duodenal switch" is perhaps the most effective obesity surgery procedure for inducing weight loss.

Obesity at childhood cancer diagnosis was independently associated with inferior survival, and this was likely driven by trends detected in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia or central ...

Children with obesity at cancer diagnosis had poorer survival ... hypertension, dyslipidemia, depression and sleep apnea, according to study background. Prior research showed adults with obesity ...

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the effects have repercussions later in life and the risk of serious health problems and premature death is lower as they reach young ...