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What is Obesity?
Obesity
What is Obesity?
- Obesity is a chronic, life-threatening disease
- Excessive body fat that often results in serious health problems
- Independent risk factor or aggravating agent for at least 30 common health conditions
- Can lead to significant medical, psychological, social, physical and economic impacts
What is Morbid Obesity?
Clinically severe obesity at which point serious medical conditions occur as a direct result of the obesity
Defined as
- -> 200% of ideal weight,
- -> 40kg overweight, or a
- - Body mass index of = 40
Medical conditions associated with being morbidly obese
WHO Classification
NIH (National Institutes of Health)
Consensus Development Conference Statement, 1991
IFSO International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity
ASBS American Society for Bariatric Surgery
SAGES Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
| BMI 25 - 29.9 |
Overweight |
| BMI 30 - 34.9 |
Grade I Obesity |
| BMI 35 - 39.9 |
Grade II Obesity |
| BMI > 40 |
Grade III Morbid Obesity |
| BMI > 50 |
Grade IV Super Obesity |
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