ArticleThe Lancet. Child & adolescent health2024
Mental health from 5 years before to 10 years after bariatric surgery in adolescents with severe obesity: a Swedish nationwide cohort study with matched population controls.
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- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Self-Reported Mental Health, and Weight Loss 10 Years after Metabolic-Bariatric Surgery during Adolescence.Obesity facts · 2025Article
- The Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Quality of Life and Depression.JAACAP open · 2025Article
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- Adverse effects of obesity on overall health, quality of life, and related physical health metrics: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study from the All of Us Research Program.Journal of internal medicine · 2025Article
- Long-Term Experience of Undergoing Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery as an Adolescent.Obesity science & practice · 2025Article
- Navigating barriers and facilitators to lifestyle changes after bariatric surgery among Emirati adolescents: a qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Psychosocial outcomes after adolescent metabolic and bariatric surgery: a narrative review of the literature.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2025Review
- Bariatric surgery in adolescents-a vital treatment option.Translational pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe long-term effects of bariatric surgery on the mental health of adolescents with severe obesity remain uncertain. We aimed to describe the prevalence of psychiatric health-care visits and filled prescription psychiatric drugs among adolescents with severe obesity undergoing bariatric surgery in the 5 years preceding surgery and throughout the first 10 years after surgery, and to draw comparisons with matched adolescents in the general population.
methodsAdolescents with severe obesity and who underwent bariatric surgery were identified through the Scandinavian Obesity Surgery Registry. We included adolescents who had bariatric surgery between 2007 and 2017 and were younger than 21 years at time of surgery. Each adolescent patient was matched with ten adolescents from the general population by age, sex, and county of residence. Specialist psychiatric care and filled psychiatric prescriptions were retrieved from nationwide data registers.
findings1554 adolescents (<21 years) with severe obesity underwent bariatric surgery between 2007 and 2017, 1169 (75%) of whom were female. At time of surgery, the mean age was 19·0 years [SD 1·0], and the mean BMI was 43·7 kg/m
interpretationPsychiatric diagnoses and psychiatric drug prescriptions were more common among adolescents with severe obesity who would later undergo bariatric surgery than among matched adolescents from the general population. Both groups showed an increase in prevalence in psychiatric diagnoses and psychiatric drug prescriptions leading up to the time of surgery, but the rate of increase in the prevalence was higher among adolescents with severe obesity than among matched adolescents. With the exception of health-care visits for substance use disorders, these prevalence trajectories continued in the 10 years of follow-up. Realistic expectations regarding mental health outcomes should be set preoperatively.
fundingSwedish Research Council, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare.
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