Fisica
Roberto Auz
Bariatric surgery
Most of the people in the U.S and around the world are obese. When human mass increases to a higherlevel, it is described as morbid obesity, this disease is connected with many other diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure. This operation is a branch of medicine dealing with obesitythis is a campaign which seeks to eradicate the problem with obesity. This is applied to people who have morbid obesity.
The body mass index is only the way to define overweight; the BMI is calculatedby a simple mathematic operation that is weight in kilograms divided by the square of weight in meters with this you are able to know what your BMI is. There are a variety of indexes that defines yourBMI and these are:
* 25 or more is overweight
* 30 or more obese
* 40 or more morbidly obese
The bariatric surgery has to be performed only if the BMI exceeds the 35 or more but thisis the last chance only when medical treatments and healthful life failed, only in that case will bariatric surgery appear.
Most people that have this catastrophic disorder have to thrash out ofrisks and the benefits with their doctors, the surgeons said that these operations work best when the subjects turn over their lives and manners into a helpful life, after the surgery the doctors followup the patient every day to avoid the complication in each case. The surgery consists of reducing the size of stomach with an implanted medical device also they can remove one part of the stomach anddo a by pass
A survey explains that people could get better from diabetes even people show improvements in cardiovascular risk factors, however the same study was applied on veterans affairs patientdid not demonstrate improvements after bariatric surgery.
In the U.S an institute suggests that bariatric surgery must be performed for obese people that exceed the BMI upper than 40. It is still...
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