UP DATE IN BARIATRIC SURGERY

Abstract

Obesity is a significant public health challenge as well as an economic burden because obese patients are at increased risk of illness from coronary heart disease, hypertension, type II diabetes, respiratory insufficiency, venous stasis or throbmoembolic disease, debilitating arthritis of weight bearing joints, depression as well as from uterine, ovarian, colonic, prostatic cancers (Charles, 2001). The prevelance of obesity is increasing at an alarming rate in many parts of the world. In west and north of Europe, Australia, and the United States the prevelance of obesity is similarly high in men and women. In countries with relatively low grows national product, such as those in central and Estern Europe, Asia, Latin- America and Africa the prevalence is 1.5 to 2 times higher among women than among men. In conclusion obesity is particularly common in women living in relatively poor condition (Seidell, 2005). There are many methods for assessment of obesity but the most accurate is the body mass index (BMI) which correlate body weight to frame size of body and equal patient weight in kilogram divided by patient height in meter squared.