Abstract
Over the past 10 years, the population of the United States has gotten progressively more obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than one-third of US adults (35.7%) and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years are obese.1 As the population becomes more obese, the prevalence of certain obesity-related illness increases. This includes, but is not limited to, diabetes mellitus, obstructive sleep apnea, and hypertension. These comorbid illnesses pose a significant problem to the health care field. So much that the American Medical Association recently declared obesity as a disease.2 With this new declaration comes an increased push to treat morbid obesity and its related complications.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Bariatric Surgery |
| Subtitle of host publication | What Every Provider Needs to Know |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Pages | 67-78 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781040140079 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781617110566 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2024 |
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