A year after singer and Beach Boy offspring Carnie Wilson underwent gastric bypass surgery in 1999, teens began undergoing the surgery in higher numbers, according to a new study.
From 2000-2003, the surgery rate among adolescents -- age 10-19 -- tripled to 771, according to a study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. That's still only a very tiny percentage of all patients who underwent the procedure.
Reportedly, no teenagers died in the hospital as a result of the operations. However, the study reports that the death rate among adults is 0.2 percent -- or one in 500.
That seems like a huge number. Readers who have expertise in medicine, is that as high as it sounds?
Weight-Loss Surgery Grows More Common Among Adolescents[MedPage]
