Surgical management of morbid obesity.

Surgical management of morbid obesity Morbid obesity describes a condition of more than twice the 'ideal weight' for at least five years despite attempts at an effective and sustained weight reduction."q The surgical approach to morbid obesity lies in the dual premise that the condition is serious and of life-shortening severity and that long-term medical treatment by prolonged starvation,5-8 hypnotherapy,9 psycho- therapy,10 anorexic and anti-obesity drugs11-13 usually fails.1-314-16