Dahm et al. [45] reviewed a cohort of 18 morbidly obese patients (median BMI 41.7 kg/m 2) who underwent RPP, and found that no patients required transfusions or had any intraoperative complications.

At your last physical, your doctor may have recorded your body mass index (BMI). That statistic has long been thought of as an indicator of how healthy someone is. While it's still helpful ...

BMI therefore cannot be applied universally across ... a few as high as 40 and 41. I’m pretty sure these gentlemen are not told they need to lose weight before they go to the OR.

Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. A person’s BMI is ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a number that reflects the relationship between your height and weight. It's widely used in health care and public health to categorize body size and estimate potential ...