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For those who are morbidly obese, weight loss surgery can be used to dramatically improve your health and your quality of life.

Morbidly Obese

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In order to qualify for weight loss surgery you have to be considered morbidly obese.

Many patients who battle with excess weight are morbidly obese. Morbid obesity is often accompanied by high blood pressure, diabetes, degenerative arthritis, increased cancer risk, and heart attacks.

Are You Morbidly Obese?

For those who are morbidly obese, weight loss surgery can be used to dramatically improve your health and your quality of life. To get an idea if you are morbidly obese or if you may be a candidate for weight loss surgery, we have included some useful tools below.

You may be a candidate for weight loss surgery.

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What is obesity? Everything you need to know about obesity, obesity prevention and bariatric surgery in Mexico.

What is Obesity?

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When looking at bariatric surgery options, it’s important to understand what obesity is and why we, as obesity surgeons, are treating it.

What is obesity?

Although most people have a general understanding that being obese means being significantly overweight, the actual definition of obesity is more complex. Currently, the measure most commonly used is BMI.

BMI stands for Body Mass Index, and is a number that’s found by dividing your weight in kilograms by your height in meters, squared.

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Obesity is a complex disease that is associated with a number of comorbidities, increased mortality, and reduced quality of life.

Obesity Facts

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Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk for global deaths. At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese.

Obesity is the result of inappropriate lifestyle choices.

Presently, a full two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Childhood obesity has also skyrocketed, tripling over the past 30 years. One in three children between the ages of 10 and 17 is now overweight or obese, and 27 percent of young adults, 17 to 24, are too heavy to join the military.

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