Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on racial disparities in adolescent bariatric surgery: an MBSAQIP analysis
Nikita S. Thareja, Ana Garcia Cabrera, J. Jeffery Reeves, Hannah M. Hollandsworth, Bryan J. Sandler, Garth R. Jacobsen, Ryan C. Broderick · 2026
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Nikita Thareja and co-workers read in 2026 how the virus years shift who got weight loss surgery among US youth, by race. The surgery is the top fix for harsh youth weight, yet reach gaps run long. They split near five and a half thousand cases from 2015 to 2023 in three spans.
White share falls by a wide gap from the first span to the last. Latin and Black shares rise in step. Ill load holds still and harm rates stay low. Black youth still face high harm odds next to white kin in one check. Reach is shift, not yet fair.
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| CREATOR | Nikita S. Thareja, Ana Garcia Cabrera, J. Jeffery Reeves, Hannah M. Hollandsworth, Bryan J. Sandler, Garth R. Jacobsen, Ryan C. Broderick |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50345 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |