Morbid obesity in adolescents : conservative treatment and surgical approaches / edited by Kurt Widhalm, Gerhard Prager.

As the worldwide prevalence of morbid obesity among adolescents continues to rise, recent years have seen a large increase in the performance of adolescent bariatric surgery. While surgical intervention often becomes necessary when conservative weight-loss therapies have failed, no standards regardi...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Widhalm, Kurt (Editor), Prager, Gerhard (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wien : Springer, 2015.
Subjects:	Morbid obesity > Treatment. Morbid obesity > Surgery. Obesity in adolescence > Treatment.