Baseline BMI is a Strong Predictor of Nadir BMI after Adolescent Gastric Bypass

Baseline BMI is a strong predictor of nadir BMI after adolescent gastric bypass.

OBJECTIVE Surgical treatment of extreme obesity may be appropriate for some adolescents. We hypothesized that surgical weight loss outcomes may differ by preoperative level of extreme obesity (body mass index [BMI] > or=99th percentile). STUDY DESIGN A longitudinal assessment of clinical characteristics from 61 adolescents who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass at a single pediat...

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for BMI < 35 kg/m(2): a tailored approach.

BACKGROUND Patients with a body mass index (BMI) < 35 kg/m(2) who are obese, have uncontrolled co-morbidities, and have tried to lose weight with no success do not meet the "traditional" criteria for obesity surgery, and no other treatment is being offered to them. METHODS A total of 37 obese patients (30 women and 7 men) had been undergoing clinical treatment with no resolution or improvemen...

Cardiovascular Outcomes Improved by Bariatric Surgery Independent of Baseline BMI

Setting and participants. The Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) trial is one of the largest and longest-running prospective trials of bariatric surgery in the world. Participants were enrolled between 1987 and 2001 from 480 Swedish primary health care centers. Individuals were eligible to participate if they were between 37 and 60 years of age and obese (minimum BMI of 34 for men and 38 for women) b...

Improvement of C peptide zero BMI 24-34 diabetic patients after tailored one anastomosis gastric bypass (BAGUA).

BACKGROUND Although bariatric surgery proved to be a very effective method in the treatment of patients in whose pancreas still produce insulin (type 2 diabetes), the accompanied metabolic syndrome and their diabetes complications, there is no information on the effect of this type of surgery in BMI24-34 patients when pancreas do not produce insulin at all (type 1, LADA and long term evolution ...

What use is the BMI?