Is Bariatric Surgery effective?
Overview
This term derived from the Greek words: weight and treatment. In simple terms, bariatric concerns the causes, prevention and treatment of severe overweight, a condition known as obesity. Obesity today ranks as a significant health challenge and studies show obesity to be a major cause of preventable mortality. Obesity, perhaps in the next 25 years will become the biggest financial drain on one's family and country along with other associated life style disorders like Diabetes and Hypertension to name a few. Obesity refers to a spectrum of problems of excess weight ranging from being mildly overweight to being morbidly obese. Patients with morbid obesity do not tend to respond to medical means of weight loss.
What is Bariatric Surgery?
This surgery, includes a variety of procedures performed on people who are obese. Weight loss includes a variety of procedures performed on people who are obese. Weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with an implanted medical device (gastric banding) or through removal of a portion of the stomach (sleeve gastrectomy or biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch) or by resecting and re-routing the small intestines to a small stomach pouch (gastric bypass surgery). Long-term studies show the procedures cause significant long-term loss of weight, recovery from diabetes, improvement in cardiovascular risk factors, and a reduction in mortality of 23% from 40%.
Why this Surgery?
Obesity leads to high risk for a number of other diseases, including high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, gastroesophageal reflux disease, arthritis, gallbladder disease, liver disease, gout, gynecologic complications, and some cancers. Thus the best way to get rid of these problems is to have a Bariatric Surgery. The purpose of Bariatric Surgery is to promote weight loss.
Are you a Candidate for Bariatric Surgery?
Some bariatric surgeons accept patients in their 60's, and some even operate on teenagers. But because this surgery is a last-gasp treatment solution for obesity, to be used when conventional weight loss programs have been tried and failed, candidates must have severe obesity-related health problems.
€ Typically, to qualify for bariatric surgery you must be 'morbidly obese', which usually means being overweight by 100 pounds (man) or 80 pounds (woman) with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40+.
€ Alternatively, bariatric surgery may be appropriate if you are 80 pounds overweight (BMI 35+) and have a serious obesity-related condition like type 2 diabetes or life-threatening cardio-pulmonary problems such as severe sleep apnea or obesity-related heart disease.
€ "Patients should be referred to high-volume centers with surgeons experienced in bariatric surgery."
This term derived from the Greek words: weight and treatment. In simple terms, bariatric concerns the causes, prevention and treatment of severe overweight, a condition known as obesity. Obesity today ranks as a significant health challenge and studies show obesity to be a major cause of preventable mortality. Obesity, perhaps in the next 25 years will become the biggest financial drain on one's family and country along with other associated life style disorders like Diabetes and Hypertension to name a few. Obesity refers to a spectrum of problems of excess weight ranging from being mildly overweight to being morbidly obese. Patients with morbid obesity do not tend to respond to medical means of weight loss.
What is Bariatric Surgery?
This surgery, includes a variety of procedures performed on people who are obese. Weight loss includes a variety of procedures performed on people who are obese. Weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with an implanted medical device (gastric banding) or through removal of a portion of the stomach (sleeve gastrectomy or biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch) or by resecting and re-routing the small intestines to a small stomach pouch (gastric bypass surgery). Long-term studies show the procedures cause significant long-term loss of weight, recovery from diabetes, improvement in cardiovascular risk factors, and a reduction in mortality of 23% from 40%.
Why this Surgery?
Obesity leads to high risk for a number of other diseases, including high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, gastroesophageal reflux disease, arthritis, gallbladder disease, liver disease, gout, gynecologic complications, and some cancers. Thus the best way to get rid of these problems is to have a Bariatric Surgery. The purpose of Bariatric Surgery is to promote weight loss.
Are you a Candidate for Bariatric Surgery?
Some bariatric surgeons accept patients in their 60's, and some even operate on teenagers. But because this surgery is a last-gasp treatment solution for obesity, to be used when conventional weight loss programs have been tried and failed, candidates must have severe obesity-related health problems.
€ Typically, to qualify for bariatric surgery you must be 'morbidly obese', which usually means being overweight by 100 pounds (man) or 80 pounds (woman) with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40+.
€ Alternatively, bariatric surgery may be appropriate if you are 80 pounds overweight (BMI 35+) and have a serious obesity-related condition like type 2 diabetes or life-threatening cardio-pulmonary problems such as severe sleep apnea or obesity-related heart disease.
€ "Patients should be referred to high-volume centers with surgeons experienced in bariatric surgery."
