Weight Loss Surgery is a surgical method that is used to reduce weight in cases of morbid, adolescence and childhood obesity. It is used to reduce the size of stomach and also to minimize its capacity to expand resulting in lesser food intake by the obese patients.
Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) includes a variety of procedures performed on people who have obesity. Weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through removal of a portion of the stomach or by resecting and re-routing the small intestine to a small stomach pouch.bariatric surgery for obese people with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 40, and for people with BMI 35 and serious coexisting medical conditions such as diabetes. Surgery should be considered as a treatment option for patients with a BMI of 40 kg/m2 or greater who instituted but failed an adequate exercise and diet program.
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