Beyond insurance: race-based disparities in the use of metabolic and bariatric surgery for the management of severe pediatric obesity
Beyond insurance: race-based disparities in the use of metabolic and bariatric surgery for the management of severe pediatric obesity
复制标题
DOI:
10.1016/j.soard.2019.11.020
复制
发表时间:
2020-03-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Kelleher, Cassandra M.
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Perez, Numa P.;Westfal, Maggie L.;Kelleher, Cassandra M.
Background: It is unknown whether previously noted racial disparities in the use of metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) for the management of pediatric obesity could be mitigated by accounting for primary insurance.Objectives: To examine utilization of pediatric MBS across race and insurance in the United States.Setting: Retrospective cross-sectional study.Methods: The National Inpatient Sample was used to identify patients 12 to 19 years old undergoing MBS from 2015 to 2016, and these data were combined with national estimates of pediatric obesity obtained from the 2015 to 2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Severe obesity was defined as class III obesity, or class II obesity plus hypertension, dyslipidemia, or type 2 diabetes.Results: A total of 1,659,507 (5.0%) adolescents with severe obesity were identified, consisting of 35.0% female, 38.0% white, and 45.0% privately insured adolescents. Over the same time period, 2535 MBS procedures were performed. Most surgical patients were female (77.5%), white (52.8%), and privately insured (57.5%). Black and Hispanic adolescents were less likely to undergo MBS than whites (odds ratio .50, .46, respectively; P