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