Bariatric Surgery Morbid Obesity

What is Morbid Obesity? Why Weight-Loss Surgery? Surgery for Morbid Obesity.
Morbid obesity means that a person is so overweight that his or her well-being and health are actually in jeopardy. It is defined in several different ways: Weighing more than 100 pounds over your ideal body weight
There is considerable misinformation concerning the validity of bariatric surgery in the management of morbid obesity.
Bariatric surgery remains the only proven long term treatment of morbid obesity. Super morbidly obese (SMO: BMI > 50) and super super morbidly obese (SSMO: BMI > can benefit from this surgery only - pharmalogical and dietary options are long gone for this cohort.

Bariatric surgery offers better outcomes, but in the highest grades of obesity (BMI>50) remains a high risk undertaking with >5% operative mortality. That said, whether bariatric treatment for morbid obesity is a viable treatment option for more than a small minority of the obese population is open to doubt.