This paper is on “Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y-Gastric Bypass”. The paper explains how Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is a safe and effective procedure for achieving significant weight loss in morbidly obese people, with a low rate of complications, a short hospital stay and rapid recovery. It furthermore explains the issue of obesity and how it has become an epidemic in the United States, with more than 60% of the population now either overweight or obese. Lifestyle modifications and weight loss medications have failed to provide significant, lasting weight loss in the majority of people who are overweight. Weight loss surgery has proven to be a safe and effective means of losing significant and lasting weight and should be considered in those who are morbidly obese.
Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y-Gastric Bypass
Obesity among adults has augmented 60% since 1991, and 25% of children are overweight or obese. Direct and indirect costs of obesity represent almost 17% of total health care costs. People who are morbidly obese are far more likely to develop diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, and some forms of cancer, as well as depression and anxiety disorders than people who are not obese. Medical treatment of obesity only has long-term success rates of approximately 5%. Studies have validated that bariatric surgery, on the other hand, has greater success rates for weight loss maintenance. Of current surgical options, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass offers the best results: complications ratio and is seen as the "gold standard" in bariatric surgery. Being overweight and physically inactive accounts for more than 300,000 premature deaths each year in the United States alone, second only to tobacco-related deaths. Surveys indicate that at any single time, 33% to 40% of adult women and 20% to 24% of adult men are trying to lose weight. Americans spend $33 billion annually on weight-loss products and services, including low-calorie foods, artificially sweetened products, and commercial weight-loss centers..................
