Weight Reduction Procedures

Risk of Surgery

Who Need Surgery

Choice of Procedures

Metabolic Surgery

Life after Surgery

Who Need Surgery

As the main purpose of bariatric surgery is to control and reduce the risk of suffering from obesity-related disease and hence reduce the chance of premature death, the criteria for surgery is dependent on balance between health risk from obesity and likelihood of benefit from surgery.

From the experience from western countries, most countries follow the guideline from the Consensus Statement from National Institute of Heath of USA in 1991:
1. Morbid obesity
2. Failure of previous medical weight reduction treatment
3. Age 18 – 55
4. No endocrine cause of obesity (mainly exclude Hypothyroidism and Cushing Disease)
5. No major psychiatric diseases (mainly exclude schizophrenia and uncontrolled major depression)
6. No substance abuse & alcoholic
7. No major organ failure which leads to contraindication for general anesthesia


DEFINITION OF MORBID OBESITY FOR SURGERY

In Western countries, the Morbid Obesity is defines as:

1.
BMI ≥ 40 kg/m2, or

2.
BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2 with severe obesity-related morbidities

However, Asians are more prone to develop obesity-related disease than Caucasian and the WHO had defined a lower BMI of 25 kg/m2 as obesity in Asian (as compared of 30kg/m2 in Caucasian).

In Asia-Pacific Region, we define Morbid Obesity according to the guideline from the Consensus Statement from Asia-Pacific Bariatric Surgeons Group in 2005:

1.
BMI ≥ 37 kg/m2, or

2.
BMI ≥ 32 kg/m2 plus Type 2 Diabetes or two obesity-related co-morbidities

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5 ft 7 in
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> 280 lb 54 49 44 40 37 > 127 kg 公斤
260 lb 50 45 41 37 34 118 kg 公斤
240 lb 46 42 38 35 32 110 kg 公斤
220 lb 42 38 35 31 29 100 kg 公斤
200 lb 38 35 31 29 26 91 kg 公斤
180 lb 35 31 28 26 24 82 kg 公斤
160 lb 31 28 25 23 21 73 kg 公斤
140 lb 27 24 22 20 18 64 kg 公斤
120 lb 23 21 19 17 16 55 kg 公斤
100 lb 19 17 16 14 13 45 kg 公斤
  1.54 m 1.62 m 1.70 m 1.78 m 1.86 m  

Surgical candidate  宜減肥手術者
Surgical candidate if DM  宜減肥手術者(如有糖尿病)
Overweight / Obese  超重 / 肥胖
Normal weight  正常體重
Underweight  過輕





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