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Glossary - About Weight Loss Surgery (Bariatric Surgery)

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Bariatric surgery: (Etymology: Greek words "baros," meaning "weight," and "iatrikos," meaning "medicine") is the term for a surgery that helps you lose weight.

Cancer: Cancer is an unregulated proliferation of cells due to loss of normal controls, resulting in unregulated growth, lack of differentiation, local tissue invasion, and, often, metastasis. (Source: The Merck Manual).

Body Mass Index (BMI): BMI is calculated as weight (in kilograms)/height squared (in meters).

Calories: A unit of measure of heat derived from combustion of fuel, such as food; energy that comes from food.

Nausea: It is the unpleasant feeling of needing to vomit (Source: The Merck Manual).

Obesity: Obesity is defined based on BMI as follows:

	Class	BMI
Obesity	I	30.0-34.9
Obesity	II	35.0-39.9
Extreme Obesity	III	40

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Member Comments ( 2 )

please I hope you read this I know this post was 3 years old but it a shot my wife just had the surgery and now has double vision and blurred vision the doctors say its the anesthesia but I do not think so can you tell me if it ever got better
(Posted by kosterholt, United States Date : 4/2/2010 )

In addition to my other letter. I also am having trouble with a foot that is going numb. Neruopathy from lack of vitamin b-12 and I am having trouble with my eye sight. I have double vision. they are testing me for mysethina gravis and MS. I am suffering daily all I believe due to the gastric bypass surgery.. I maybe wrong but I was without any of these problems before the surgery.. My dr. once said for being 333lbs. you'd never know it looking at all of my health issues or lack of and lab work. my health status was great I only was fat...I'd do anything to not have done this surgery and have my healthy fat life back...I can't believe I did this surgery so I could do more funny, I suffer daily in pain, losing my teeth, losing feeling in my foot and most of all I have to close my left eye to see or I'll see double vision. that takes away your independence.. OH what I wouldn't do to be a healthy fat functioning independently daily....
(Posted by andrea, United States Date : 10/20/2007 )

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