When I was returning from the 10th world congress of laparoscopic surgery in Berlin, this has been a very interesting event although the location was a bit out-placed. Morbid obesity has been on focus amongst many other things and it was interesting to learn that 55.000 people die from morbid obesity in france every year. In the US, even 300.000 persons die from obesity-related illnesses - three times the number of people who die each year from breast cancer and colon cancer combined.What a killer - eating - can be ....
Fortunately, there are now many options for help - including surgery which offers advanced gastric banding, Roux-Y gastric bypass, gastric sleeve resection and duodenal switch operation.Who should undergo surgery ? This question was debated - any person with a BMI (body mass index) of 35 (in europe, surgeons define 30) is a candidate for surgery.
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