Erschienen in:
03.05.2023 | Opinion
The Term Bariatric: Time for a Well-Deserved Retirement
verfasst von:
Sergio Santoro, Scott Shikora, Ricardo V. Cohen
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 7/2023
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The measured weight of a person with obesity is generally not clinically relevant to health care providers as it does not always correlate with the amount and distribution of the actual adipose tissue, nor does it predict the related health consequences. In the early 1990s, the National Institute of Health [
1] proposed guidelines for performing gastrointestinal surgery for obesity. These guidelines were based mainly on body mass index (BMI), a straightforward albeit inaccurate surrogate for adiposity. Currently, it is clear that obesity is an illness with genetic and biological causes, and the indications for surgical treatment cannot be based solely on BMI [
2]. Consequently, as weight loss alone was the primary target, the many operations dedicated to treating obesity were generically called bariatric surgery. The term
bari comes from the Greek and means weight. …
