British kids as young as 11 prescribed weight loss jabs over severe obesity

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Children treated at NHS weight management clinics have high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes and even early signs of heart disease. Shocking NHS data on the most severely obese under-18s published for the first time shows 6,500 kids as young as four have needed treatment at the clinics since they were launched in England in 2021. Some 406 were given weight loss jabs with the youngest prescribed the powerful appetite suppressing injections being 11 years old. Among those treated at the