Body mass index

Surgeons of obesity surgery at hospitals of Delhi in India are available at an affordable price through medical tourism. Obesity is an excess of body fat. There is an established formula to calculate what is considered a healthy body weight in relation to height. This formula is called the Body Mass Index (BMI). The BMI has been formulated to give broad guide lines for the relationship of body weight on health.

 BMI = weight (kg)/height2 (meters)

 

Pulmonary

 

∙       The incidence of obstructive sleep apnea is 12 to 30-fold higher in the morbidly obese than in the general population.

CANCER

∙       Cancer mortality rates are increased in the morbidly obese compared with the general population.

∙       Mortality rates for obese women are increased for endometrial, gallbladder, uterine, cervix, ovarian, and breast cancers.

∙       Mortality rates for obese men are increased for colorectal and prostate cancers.

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