Aansh Patel, a three-year-old boy from Surat, weighing 37 kg, is the youngest child in India to undergo a bariatric surgery, said doctors. Patel's parents were alarmed when Aansh gained a staggering 17 kg in the past one year and started having severe breathing problems affecting his sleep...Aansh was 37kg at the age of three, and his Body Mass Index (BMI) was 90 percentile, which indicate severe obesity in children. The ideal weight for a child aged 3 years should be 15-20kg,..Read more at THE TIMES OF INDIA ttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Three-year-old-boy-youngest-to-undergo-bariatric-surgery/articleshow/54474858.cms
Yogita, 8, and, Amisha, 6, underwent bariatric surgery at the Asian Bariatrics hospital, Ahmedabad.Dr Mahendra Narwaria, chairman, Asian Bariatrics, who performed the laproscopic sleeve gastrectomy bariatric surgery on the sisters, said that Yogita lost nine kg and Amisha 10kg...He said that both the sisters are suffering from leptin receptor mutation—
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youngest to undergo bariatric surgery
Aansh Patel, a three-year-old boy from Surat, weighing 37 kg, is the youngest child in India to undergo a bariatric surgery, said doctors. Patel's parents were alarmed when Aansh gained a staggering 17 kg in the past one year and started having severe breathing problems affecting his sleep...Aansh was 37kg at the age of three, and his Body Mass Index (BMI) was 90 percentile, which indicate severe obesity in children. The ideal weight for a child aged 3 years should be 15-20kg,..Read more at THE TIMES OF INDIA ttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Three-year-old-boy-youngest-to-undergo-bariatric-surgery/articleshow/54474858.cms
Obese sisters
Yogita, 8, and, Amisha, 6, underwent bariatric surgery at the Asian Bariatrics hospital, Ahmedabad.Dr Mahendra Narwaria, chairman, Asian Bariatrics, who performed the laproscopic sleeve gastrectomy bariatric surgery on the sisters, said that Yogita lost nine kg and Amisha 10kg...He said that both the sisters are suffering from leptin receptor mutation—