RT Book, Section A1 Cooney, Robert N. A2 Silverman, Robert K. SR Print(0) ID 1139757188 T1 Bariatric Surgery T2 Obesity Medicine: Management of Obesity in Women's Health Care YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071843515 LK obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1139757188 RD 2024/03/28 AB Obesity describes the excess accumulation of body fat and is currently endemic in the United States, afflicting over 35% of the adult population. Although the percentage of body fat (>25% in men and >32% in women) is commonly used to describe obesity, these measurements are not readily available to most clinicians. Therefore, obesity is more commonly assessed by calculating the patient’s body mass index (BMI) or weight (kg) divided by their height in square meters (m2).1 Using these criteria, obesity is defined as having a BMI greater than 30, and clinically severe or morbid obesity is described as a having a BMI greater than 40 or a BMI greater than 35 with severe medical comorbidities.2 Using BMI criteria, more than 50% of adult Americans are overweight or obese, and approximately 5% are morbidly obese.3