Focus on Nutrition and Nutrition Science

Bariatric Surgery and a Baby on Board?


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Host: Lauren Streicher, MD
Guest: Coleen Kelly, MD

More than 150,000 obese American people undergo bariatric surgery annually. Many of these patients are women who will become pregnant. Dr. Colleen Kelly, a gastroenterologist at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, joins host Dr. Lauren Streicher to discuss this growing patient population. The two discuss which surgical option is best for a woman who wants to conceive, along with nutritional guidlines, complications, and of course the health of the baby.

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