Super obese v/s super-super obese – Slim chance of winning the classification war
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March - 2023, Posted On: 01 March 2023
An obese young boy and his father approached a bariatric surgeon for weight-loss surgery. Considering the boy’s BMI, the surgeon, one of the first ones to perform bariatric surgery in India, classified him as super obese and performed sleeve gastrectomy.