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Nearly 40% of under-25s who have weight-loss surgery in the UK are classified as super-obese, according to new figures.
Surgeons say this is evidence of "a clear failure of strategies to prevent weight gain in young people".
Overall, more patients are having weight-loss surgery and, on average, they are getting more obese and more ill by the time of surgery.
A leading bariatric surgeon said severe obesity threatens to bankrupt the NHS.
The figures are contained in a report, from the National Bariatric Surgery Registry, which includes information on more than 18,000 weight-loss operations in 137 UK hospitals between 2010 and 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29953082
Surgeons say this is evidence of "a clear failure of strategies to prevent weight gain in young people".
Overall, more patients are having weight-loss surgery and, on average, they are getting more obese and more ill by the time of surgery.
A leading bariatric surgeon said severe obesity threatens to bankrupt the NHS.
The figures are contained in a report, from the National Bariatric Surgery Registry, which includes information on more than 18,000 weight-loss operations in 137 UK hospitals between 2010 and 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29953082