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The Severely Obese Patient

2017
The progression of the prevalence of obesity worldwide should be preoccupying in the field of anesthesiology. In addition to the multisystemic morbidities, the respiratory and cardiac morbidity associated with severe obesity needs to be very well investigated prior to surgery and during the perioperative period. More essential is the evaluation and the
Lorrie Tremblay, Jean S. Bussières, Paul Poirier   +2 more
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Mortality of severely obese subjects

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1992
All large prospective studies (n greater than 20,000) and several smaller studies have found that severe obesity [body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 35 kg/m2] is associated with approximately a twofold increase in total mortality and in a severalfold increase in mortality due to diabetes, cerebro-, and cardiovascular disease, and certain ...
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Gastric bypass for treating severe obesity

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1992
Gastric bypass (RY-GBP) has a very small gastric pouch with a 1-cm diameter Roux-Y gastrojejunostomy. RY-GBP is associated with early satiety and an aversion to sweets secondary to dumping syndrome symptoms and has a significantly better weight loss than various gastroplasty procedures, including the vertical banded gastroplasty.
H J, Sugerman, J M, Kellum, K M, Engle, L, Wolfe, J V, Starkey, R, Birkenhauer, P, Fletcher, M J, Sawyer   +7 more
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Gastric bypass surgery for severe obesity

Seminars in Laparoscopic Surgery, 2002
Severe obesity is associated with a number of co-morbidities. Medical weight reduction programs have not been proven to have long-term efficacy for these severely obese patients. Surgically induced weight loss has been found to completely reverse or markedly ameliorate obesity-related problems.
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Sleep and Severe Obesity

2016
This chapter briefly outlines normal sleep architecture and the important elements needed for sleep to function adequately and is followed by characteristics of sleep (quantity, quality, and duration) that have been related to obesity. Treatment options that are available for the obstructive sleep apnea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome (the two ...
Elliott Kyung Lee, Raed Hawa
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Fecal microbial transplantation and fiber supplementation in patients with severe obesity and metabolic syndrome: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial

Nature Medicine, 2021
V. Mocanu, Zhengxiao Zhang, Edward C. Deehan, D. Kao, N. Hotte, S. Karmali, D. Birch, K. Samarasinghe, J. Walter, K. Madsen   +9 more
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Bariatric Surgery for Severely Obese Adolescents

Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 2014
Severe obesity is increasing in adolescents and is associated with cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, obstructive sleep apnoea, polycystic ovarian syndrome and a range of musculoskeletal problems. Premature death is the inevitable outcome of persistent severe obesity in adolescents.
Dominic A, Fitzgerald, Louise, Baur
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Treatment considerations for severe adolescent obesity

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 2005
h m c m s t b a As the epidemic of obesity in all age groups progresses nchecked, Americans are increasingly considering extreme easures to combat the known health complications of besity. Whereas nearly 31% of adults in the United States re obese [1], more than 15% of children and adolescents re obese—a prevalence that has more than tripled in the ast
Thomas H, Inge, Louise, Lawson
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Bariatric Surgery for Severely Obese Adolescents

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 2003
A 1991 National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference concluded that severely obese adults could be eligible for bariatric surgery if they had a body mass index (BMI) > or =35 kg/m(2) with or > or =40 kg/m(2) without obesity comorbidity. It was thought at that time that there were inadequate data to support bariatric surgery in severely obese ...
Harvey J, Sugerman, Elizabeth L, Sugerman, Eric J, DeMaria, John M, Kellum, Colleen, Kennedy, Yvonne, Mowery, Luke G, Wolfe   +6 more
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Relationship Between Asthma Severity and Obesity

Journal of Asthma, 2004
The prevalence of both obesity and asthma has risen in recent years. We sought to investigate whether obesity may be related to asthma. We undertook a retrospective medical record review of patient records at an inner-city academic asthma center. Obesity was defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30.
Michael J H, Akerman, Catherine M, Calacanis, Mary K, Madsen   +2 more
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