The body mass index is one important tool that can be used to determine if you are obese or morbidly obese. We’d like to look at the body mass index right now and analyze its applicability for determining candidacy for bariatric surgery.

Bariatric surgery has been extremely effective for dealing with obesity in adults, but what about teens? This is one subject we could be hearing about more and more given the nature of childhood obesity and if the numbers continue at their current rate.