Gastric Bypass Surgery

American Obesity Association

The AOA has been founded to combat a condition that affects more than one-quarter of all adults and one in five children. The effects of the disease, in terms of death, disability and morbidity are devastating. Despite the enormous toll taken by obesity, however, the disease does not receive the attention it deserves from government, the health care profession or the insurance industry.

A comprehensive site on obesity and overweight. Obesity is not a simple condition of eating too much. It is now recognized that obesity is a serious, chronic disease. No human condition — not race, religion, gender, ethnicity or disease state — compares to obesity in prevalence and prejudice, mortality and morbidity, sickness and stigma.

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• Lifespan may be cut short by obesity.
• Major insurance company boosts coverage for obesity treatment and prevention.
• New government report on morbid obesity finds weight-loss surgery effective.
• Health risks related to obesity improved or eliminated with bariatric surgery.
• Decrease in health care costs result with bariatric surgery.
• Bariatric surgery patients show improved mortality and morbidity.
• New Medicare policy increases coverage for obesity treatment.
• Obesity on verge of surpassing smoking as #1 cause of preventable death.
• Obesity a factor in increase of disability.

Obesity is a disease that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population (approximately 60 million). The number of overweight and obese Americans has continued to increase since 1960, a trend that is not slowing down. Today, 64.5 percent of adult Americans (about 127 million) are categorized as being overweight or obese. Each year, obesity causes at least 300,000 excess deaths in the U.S., and healthcare costs of American adults with obseity amount to approximately $100 billion.

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