What is Bariatric Surgery? How many types of Bariatric Surgery are there?
India ranks 3rd in obesity. Being obese doesn’t seem such a big problem until it becomes the reason for multiple health disorders. By that time, it is too little, too late. The World Health Organisation has now categorized obesity as a disease. A disease that leads to comorbidities like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, etc. It raises the chances of other medical conditions like shortness of breath, fatty liver, infertility, joint pains and increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. It’s not like people do not want to lose weight. Some even do. But there are a few others who just can’t lose weight even after having tried dieting and exercising. Bariatric Surgery is recommended to these people; people who are having trouble living their normal life because of their weight and their BMI is more than 40. What is Bariatric Surgery? All types of weight-loss procedures that need surgical intervention by making changes in the digestive ...