Kathleen Doheny, reporter for the HealthDay News, reported on MONDAY, March 28 that according to a new study, teens who undergo gastric bypass weight loss surgery can expect to have a decline in bone mass, just as adults do.
The study reported that according to Dr. Anne-Marie Kaulfers, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of South Alabama, “two years after the surgery, the bone mineral content of the 61 obese teens studied had declined, on average, by 7.4 percent.”
"At the moment, I do not think there is cause for alarm," Kaulfers said of the study findings. That's because the teens, who averaged 17 years old, still had bone mass within the normal range, she said. They had started with above-average bone mass for their age and gender.
The findings are reported online March 28 in the journal Pediatrics.
Kaulfers and her colleagues decided to study the teens because a loss of bone mineral content during adolescence, when they should be approaching peak bone mass, could potentially compromise future bone health.
Studies of adults have also found that their bone mass declines after the surgery. Get the full story here.
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