Another outgrowth of the childhood obesity epidemic is that surgeons are seeing more and more overweight and obese children in the operating room. In fact, a recent study of records from over 6.000 pediatric surgeries performed at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor revealed that nearly a third of them were performed on overweight or obese children.
The problem with this? Those who are overweight or obese have a greater frequency of problems during and after surgery. One complication that is more prevalent in overweight people, including children, is post-surgical wound infection.
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