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Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volume 1, Issue 1, January–February 2005, Pages 67-68
Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

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Guidelines for weight calculations and follow-up in bariatric surgery

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Weight calculations

  • Ideal weight, in pounds or kilograms. Ideal weight may be obtained from the 1983 Metropolitan Height and Weight Table for a person of medium frame. It is based on height, gender, and frame size of the patient; however, the medium frame category is customarily used, regardless of the individual patient’s actual frame size.

  • Excess weight (EW), in pounds or kilograms = (weight − ideal weight). Ideal weight is obtained for a given patient’s gender and height. EW is the amount that the patient is

Standardized follow-up calculations

The 1994 ASBS Standards Committee stipulated that follow-up data should be provided for each analysis presented: “The numerator should indicate the number of patients whose data are included in the group analyzed, and the denominator is recommended to be the number of patients eligible for follow-up” [1]. However, methods for reporting follow-up remain unclear in some publications with respect to the percentage of patients actually followed for the time interval examined. Therefore, a

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