Klein A, et al. - Through retrospectively identifying charts of Israeli children aged 0 to 9 years undergoing ventilation tube insertion (VTI) with or without adenoidectomy between September 1, 2017, and March 31, 2019, in a secondary level hospital, researchers tested the assumption that children scheduled for VTI (n = 83; mean age was 3.5 ± 1.8 years), a surrogate procedure reflecting otitis media (OM) presence, were overweight or obese. Their mean body mass index (BMI, kg/m²) were contrasted to the mean BMI of a control group (n = 77; mean age was 6.3 ± 1.9 years) composed of children who had surgeries unrelated to OM (fracture fixation/reduction, inguinal/umbilical hernia repair, meatotomy, appendectomy). Findings revealed that there was no statistically significant difference in the mean BMI values between both groups. Children with VTI as compared with their age- and gender-matched peers were were overweight. In boys, this observation was more remarkable.