# Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Psychosocial Health and Risk Across Ten Years

> **NIH NIH R01** · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · 2021 · $583,811

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
Bariatric surgery is emerging as a safe and efficacious treatment for adolescent severe obesity, yet the
durability of improvements and impact on patient well-being in the longer-term is largely unknown. This is a
critical gap given adult evidence that patterns of optimal and suboptimal weight loss outcomes extend across
the first post-operative decade or more, as well as by increased rates of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and risk of
death by suicide. Unlike an adult, the adolescent patient's post-operative course cuts across known
developmental periods where mental health disorders first emerge, and high risk behavior engagement peaks,
including alcohol/tobacco/drug use, HIV/sexual-risk behaviors, and suicidal behaviors. Hence, tracking only
adolescent physical health outcomes following bariatric surgery does not sufficiently capture the

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10159884
- **Project number:** 5R01DK080020-13
- **Recipient organization:** CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** Todd M Jenkins
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $583,811
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2008-03-01 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10159884

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10159884, Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Psychosocial Health and Risk Across Ten Years (5R01DK080020-13). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10159884. Licensed CC0.

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