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The condition of weighing two, three, or more times the ideal weight, so called because it is associated with many serious and life-threatening disorders. In the BODY MASS INDEX, morbid obesity is defined as having a BMI greater than 40.0 kg/m2.
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7 entry terms
- Obesity, Morbid
- Obesity, Severe
- Morbid Obesities
- Obesities, Morbid
- Obesities, Severe
- Severe Obesities
- Severe Obesity
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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/surg: consider also BARIATRIC SURGERY
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- Obesity (1966-1986)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Morbid Obesity. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009767. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009767
- Morbid Obesity. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbid_obesity
- Morbid Obesity. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9051491