Stomach Stapling Surgery- Do You Qualify For It?
August 14th, 2008 | by admin |Stomach stapling is a major yet simple bariatric surgery that employs gastric staples so as to reduce the stomach size of the patient. However, before you get a stomach stapling surgery done to reduce weight, it is necessary to consider if you actually qualify for this surgery or not?
A person that has a BMI or Body Mass Index of 40 or more is eligible for a stomach stapling surgery. Therefore, a man must be overweight by 100 pounds in accordance to what is considered to be a normal weight for his height. In case of a woman, this figure reduces to 80 pounds extra of the healthy weight for a woman of her height.
