Researchers have found that surgical treatment of obesity is as effective for individuals who developed the disorder early by the age of 20 as for those who have developed obesity later in life. The results published in the journal Diabetes Care are based on data from the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study. For the findings the researchers covered a total of 4026 adult individuals who had developed obesity. Half of them had undergone bariatric surgery and the other half were a control group. We were somewhat surprised at the results. Since the group that had already developed obesity by the