Obesity Surgery Appears to Thin Bones -- Maybe Enough to Break

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WASHINGTON -- It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too.

Doctors don't yet know how likely patients' bones are to thin enough to break in the years after surgery. But one of the first attempts to tell suggests they might have twice the average person's risk and be even more likely to break a hand or foot.

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Obesity Surgery Appears to Thin Bones -- Maybe Enough to Break

The Mayo Clinic's finding is surprising, and further research is under way to see if the link is real. But with bariatric surgery booming and even teenagers in their key bone-building years increasingl...

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