Modern surgical methods of obesity treatment

The rise of morbid obesity is now on the rise not only in the populations of economically developed countries in Europe and the USA, but is spreading throughout the world. Obesity affects almost all population groups and its complications, especially metabolic and cardiovascular, threaten the lives of young people in particular. Treatment of morbid obesity is neither simple nor short-term. It is a complicated and multifactorial condition and therefore the previously widespread view that obesity is caused by a lack of willpower or food habits is not valid. Surgical methods (so-called. bariatric) are therefore nowadays increasingly important in the treatment of morbidly obese people. Bariatric surgery has been shown to be one of the most effective treatments for morbid obesity itself, as well as for the prophylaxis and treatment of serious complications associated with obesity.