Doctors treating teens with obesity should consider weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery, new guideline says

Doctors caring for young people with obesity should provide nutritional and exercise advice, but should also consider offering weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery to teenagers, according to the first new Canadian guideline on the treatment of pediatric obesity in nearly 20 years.The clinical practice guideline, which provides advice to doctors on how to treat children with obesity, was published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It features 10 recommendations, including one in favour of GLP-1 receptor agonists, the class of drugs that contains semaglutide, better known as the Type 2 diabetes medication Ozempic.