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Bariatric Surgery: Long-term effectiveness, surgical procedures Effectiveness outcomes and complications.

Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Dietary imbalance and overeating can lead to an increasingly widespread disease - obesity. Aesthetic considerations aside, obesity is defined as an excess of adipose tissue that can lead to serious health problems and can predispose to a number of pathological changes and clinical diseases, including diabetes; hypertension; atherosclerosis; coronary artery disease and stroke; obstructive sleep apnea; depression; weight-related arthropathies and endometrial and breast cancer. A body weight 20% above ideal for age, gender and height is a severe health risk. Bariatric surgery is a set of surgical methods to treat morbid obesity when other treatments such as diet, increased physical activity, behavioral changes and drugs have failed
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7147614122
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