Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Obesity and Bariatric Surgery

Obesity has become a worldwide health problem that adds to various dangerous and disabling diseases, for example, type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease. Bariatric surgery (weight reduction surgery) incorporates an assortment of techniques performed on individuals who have obesity. This is finished by decreasing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through evacuation of a bit of the stomach or by resecting and re-directing the small intestine to a small stomach pouch. The U.S. National Institutes of Health prescribes bariatric surgery for corpulent individuals with a body mass record (BMI) of no under 40, and for people with BMI of no under 35 and genuine coinciding therapeutic conditions.