Surgical Treatment of Alimentary-constitutional Obesity Using Guided Horizontal Gastroplasty

Abstract

According to WHO research, 50% of women and 30% of men are obese. Sometimes, patients' body weight exceeds ideal values by two or even three times. Due to excessive body weight, obese people often develop severe concomitant diseases such as atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, polyarthritis, cardiac and pulmonary insufficiency. In the vast majority of cases, these patients lose their ability to work and are forced into disability. This is why severe forms of obesity, accompanied by various somatic diseases, are called morbid obesity. Severe comorbidities not only reduce the quality of life of obese patients and limit their ability to work, but also significantly increase the risk of mortality. A clear correlation between the degree of excess body weight and increased mortality in patients with alimentary-constitutional obesity compared to individuals of the same sex and age with normal body weight was established.