Beyond insurance: race-based disparities in the use of metabolic and bariatric surgery for the management of severe pediatric obesity.

Autor:	Perez NP; Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: npperez@mgh.harvard.edu., Westfal ML; Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Stapleton SM; Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Stanford FC; Department of Medicine - Division of Endocrinology-Neuroendocrine, Department of Pediatrics - Division of Endocrinology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Griggs CL; Department of Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, New York., Pratt JS; Department of Surgery, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California., Chang DC; Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Kelleher CM; Department of Surgery, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery [Surg Obes Relat Dis] 2020 Mar; Vol. 16 (3), pp. 414-419. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Dec 04.
DOI:	10.1016/j.soard.2019.11.020
Abstrakt:	Background: It is unknown whether previously noted racial disparities in the use of metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) for the management of pediatric obesity could be mitigated by accounting for primary insurance. Objectives: To examine utilization of pediatric MBS across race and insurance in the United States. Setting: Retrospective cross-sectional study. Methods: The National Inpatient Sample was used to identify patients 12 to 19 years old undergoing MBS from 2015 to 2016, and these data were combined with national estimates of pediatric obesity obtained from the 2015 to 2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Severe obesity was defined as class III obesity, or class II obesity plus hypertension, dyslipidemia, or type 2 diabetes. Results: A total of 1,659,507 (5.0%) adolescents with severe obesity were identified, consisting of 35.0% female, 38.0% white, and 45.0% privately insured adolescents. Over the same time period, 2535 MBS procedures were performed. Most surgical patients were female (77.5%), white (52.8%), and privately insured (57.5%). Black and Hispanic adolescents were less likely to undergo MBS than whites (odds ratio .50, .46, respectively; P < .001 both), despite adjusting for primary insurance. White adolescents covered by Medicaid were significantly more likely to undergo MBS than their privately insured counterparts (odds ratio 1.66; P < .001), while the opposite was true for black and Hispanic adolescents (odds ratio .29, .75, respectively; P < .001 both). Conclusions: Pediatric obesity disproportionately affects racial minorities, yet MBS is most often performed on white adolescents. Medicaid insurance further decreases the use of MBS among nonwhite adolescents, while paradoxically increasing it for whites, suggesting expansion of government-sponsored insurance alone is unlikely to eliminate this race-based disparity. (Copyright © 2020 American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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