Bariatric Surgery: estimating the pool of eligibilitydoi:https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i1472BMJ
Background Bariatric surgery is the most effective current treatment for severe obesity. Capacity to perform surgery within Canada's public health system i... Raj,S,Padwal,... - 《International Journal for Equity in Health》 被引量: 61发表: 2012年 Should Eligibility for Bariatric Surgery Be Ex...
Professional Resources in a Compassionate Climate Virginia Bariatric Surgery Center is a specialty surgery practice focused exclusively on the minimally-invasive surgical treatment ofmorbid obesity. Located in Reston, Virginia, we serve patients in Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, and West Virginia....
Patient eligibility for bariatric surgery, also called weight-loss or metabolic surgery, has expanded over the last decade and its safety and effectiveness even further established in clinical studies and professional guidelines, but relatively few patients with a body mass index (BMI) below 35 actual...
Socioeconomic disparities in eligibility and access to bariatric surgery: a national population-based analysis. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2010;6(1):8-15. doi:10.1016/j.soard.2009.07.003 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 16. Love KM, Mehaffey JH, Safavian D, et al. Bariatric ...
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Bariatric surgeryMetabolic surgeryCandidateIndicationsComorbiditiesBody compositionAdiposityFat-free massDetailed phenotypingObesity is a worldwide main health concern, with a high treatment failure. This chapter focuses on the definition of obesity, based on excessive fat accumulation and thus underscores the ...
Sa1346 Eligibility for Bariatric Surgery Among Adults in England: Analysis of National Cross Sectional Surveydoi:10.1016/S0016-5085(13)60951-8Ahmir Ahmad and Anthony A. Laverty and Erlend T. Aasheim and Azeem Majeed and Christopher Millett and Sonia Saxena...
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) criteria for eligibility are those with body mass index (BMI) 3540 kg/m 2 with at least one comorbidity that could be improved by losing weight, or a BMI 40 kg/m 2 . The comorbidities examined were hypertension, type 2 ...
The number of people in England who are potentially eligible for bariatric surgery according to criteria set out in UK national guidance is not known. We used data from Health Survey for England (HSE) 2006, representative of the non-institutionalised English population, to determine the number ...