Criteria for bariatric surgery should consider more than just patient’s weight

More than one-third of Americans are obese, and while more than 250,000 bariatric surgeries are performed annually in the United States, experts say surgery should be an option for many more patients. Researchers say the standard criteria to qualify for bariatric surgery are nearly three decades old and are arbitrarily based on a patient’s body mass index (BMI).

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