I AM CANDIDATE TO THESE TECHNIQUES?

The obesity is a consisting of disease an excess of corporal fat. It is a disease of the metabolism that is included/understood still badly, but that is chronic, that is to say, a tendency for all the life, and in which they know manifold factors that influence. Some of these are:
1. Excess of foods and calories.
2. Lack of physical activity.
3. Genetic or hereditary factors.
4. Medical diseases.
5. Certain social or familiar conditioners.		  

MEASUREMENT OF THE OBESITY
The obesity is moderate in terms of Index of Corporal Mass or BMI. The BMI relates the stature to the weight of a very simple way: it is enough to divide the weight by the stature to the square. (BMI = kg /m2).
Ideal is considered the BMI between 19 and 24. Between 25 and 30, speech of overweight. From 30, he is obese. And from 40, the obesity is mórbida or harmful for the health, also call obesity of class III. Numerous patients with BMI over 50 exist to which malignant obesity by gravísimas is denominated super-obese or consequences on the health.

WHAT IS MORBID OBESITY?
It is the obesity disease cause, designated like comorbidity of the obesity.


DISEASES RELATED TO THE OBESITY
1. Diabetes
2. Arterial hypertension
3. Cardiac diseases
4. Excess of cholesterol
5. Apnea of the dream, respiratory insufficiency, syndrome of hipo entilación of the obese one
6. Gastroesofágico ebb tide
7. Biliary diseases of the biliary vesicle, calculations.
8. Urinary Incontinencia of stress
9. Degenerativas diseases, artrosis, of back, hip, knees and ankles.
10. Varices and syndrome of venous insufficiency.
11. Emotional and psychological problems
12. Social, familiar effects, on the pair.
 

WHAT PLACE OCCUPIES THE SURGERY FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE OBESITY?
The surgery is contemplated for patients with an Index of Corporal Mass superior to 40 (or 35 in the presence of many problems of health due to the obesity); in that all the alternative methods like the regimes have failed, drugs and even the intragastric ball.

WHAT TYPE OF TECHNIQUES IS PREFERRED AT THE MOMENT?
According to the types of patients and their causes and characteristics of obesity, two types of techniques are preferred today, the restrictive call - in which the capacity of the stomach is diminished of some way, and the mixed one, in that a shortening to the intestinal transit is associated in addition so that they are absorbed except foods. Both are made today with laparoscopia, that is to say, without great surgical incisions, by expert surgeons in this type of techniques.

It stops most of the obese patients in our means, we today advised the restrictive technique by means of GASTRIC BAND, for being less aggressive and with smaller risk than the mixed technique.

CRITERIA TO BE CANDIDATE TO TH OBESITY SURGERY
So that he is correct to raise an operation by obesity, it is necessary that a series of criteria is fulfilled that have been established by the INH (National Institute of North American Health):

1. To have an Index of Masa Corporal (BMI) of 40 or more, or in some cases of serious diseases associated to the obesity, with a BMI from 35 to 40.
2. To have failed in previous efforts to lose weight with diet, exercise, changes in life style or medication.
3. To be conscious and able to include/understand the possible risks, associated benefits and indirect effect to the procedure.
4. To commit itself to verify the changes of style of life that entails the surgery, as well as to a pursuit in the long term. This is essential for a lasting success.
5. It cannot suffer of any medical, psychiatric or emotional upheaval that contraindicates the surgery.
6. It must be motivated and to have realistic expectations of the surgery: THE SURGERY IS AN INSTRUMENT TO HELP HIM TO LOSE WEIGHT.


Therefore:

1º CALCULATE YOUR BMI:

Stature(in cm, without shoes):

Wheigh (in kg, without clothes):

Index of Corporal Mass:

2º IF the RESULT IS BETWEEN 30 and 45, you are You the ideal patient for our techniques, as long as:

a) Regime has tried seriously and has failed, with or without drugs.
b) It does not present/display upheavals of the nourishing behavior as bulimia.
c) He is not too young - smaller of 18 years or greater of 65 years.
d) It does not have diseases that contraindicate these techniques: for it it will have to consult with his doctor or us on his particular case.

Our Equipment must by vocation help 3 types of patients: :

- Those that see with impotence increase progressively their weight, at the rate of 4-5 kg to the year, and do not know what to do.

- Those that have proven of everything, and that always have recovered the lost weight… with some Kilo of more…

- Those that suffer chronic diseases and whose doctor repeats to them that they must become thin… without explaining to them how.

- And for all those that include/understand that they must lose weight FOR ALWAYS.


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