Is there an indication for BPD-DS/BPD? What the potential advantages/disadvantages to RYNGB?

Abstract

The number of obese and morbidly obese adolescents is increasing in the western industrialized world. Approximately, 7%of US 18-year olds already meet thedefinition of extreme obesity and that number is growing every year.In Germany the number of morbidly obese children and adolescents has increased dramatically; 10-20 of the German school children are overweight orobese. But not only the number of obese children has increased but also the weight itself: The annually BMI-gain is in obese twice as in normal weight children (Quelle: Herpertz et al.: Jahrestagung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 2007). Obesity surgery is not a causal treatment of a disease, but more effective and long-term stable in morbid obesity than conservative treatments (Literatur).