Gastric Bypass Operation
The phrase gastric bypass refers to many surgeries that are performed to treat morbid obesity. A morbidly obese person is described by the National Institute of Health (NIH) as a person with a body mass index (BMI) of a lot more than 40 where BMI is often a calculation of a person’s weight divided by their height squared. The BMI calculation allows for shorter people today to qualify for gastric bypass without having having to be 100 pounds overweight as was the previous stipulation for these surgeries.
