Body Mass Index (BMI)

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BMI stands for Body Mass Index. If you look at the qualifying factors for obesity treatments such as weight loss surgery, you will always see a minimum BMI attached to these treatments.

Our obesity surgeons do not feel that BMI is always the best way to measure whether someone should have bariatric surgery, but it does serve an important role as a quick and easy way of measuring obesity. For the majority of people, BMI is a helpful way to determine how much fat they have. Each BMI is assigned to a designation of Underweight, Ideal weight, Overweight, or Obese. There are categories of obesity that include Severely Obese, Morbidly Obese, and Super Obese.