BMI (Body Mass Index) is the measurable height/weight ratio, which is the Turkish equivalent of Body Mass Index.
The numerical value corresponding to this ratio determines whether the person is normal, overweight, obese, severely obese or morbidly obese.
Morbid Obesity means being overweight enough to shorten life expectancy and cause life-threatening diseases.
BMI, in short, is found by dividing the square of height (in meters) by the weight in kilograms.
BMI - Obesity Index
BMI is found by dividing the square of the 1.68 cm height of a person weighing 90 kg, that is, 90 / (1.68 x 1.68) = 32. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) data, the equivalent of this result is obese.
Result: 20-25 is normal, 25-30 is overweight, 30-35 is obese, 35-40 is severely obese and over 40 is morbid. It is considered obese.
In severely obese people; Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver, advanced knee calcification, sleep apnea, and serious reflux disease have established or are about to occur.
All weight-reducing Morbid obese surgery techniques are called "Bariatric surgery".
>What is Bariatrix?
“Bariatrix” is the branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention and treatment of obesity. It provides excessive weight control by making diet, lifestyle recommendations, exercise, medication and, if necessary, surgical recommendations.
What is Postbariatric Surgery?
"Postbariatric surgery" is the removal of excess body weight due to excessive weight loss. Correcting deformities with surgical techniques is the process of giving the body a new and aesthetically acceptable shape.
Bariatric surgery is the area of interest and expertise of internal medicine specialists, Bariatric surgery is the area of interest and expertise of general surgeons, and Postbariatric surgery is the area of interest and expertise of plastic surgeons.
According to TUIK 2007 data, the average height for men in our country is 1.72 cm and for women is 1.63 cm. Considering that the weight limit for being "normal" according to WHO criteria is 73.7 kg for men and 66 kg for women.
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