Bariatric Surgery Is Reserved for Patients with Clinically Severe Obesity

question 21

True/False

Bariatric surgery is reserved for patients with clinically severe obesity and those who have BMI ≥40 or ≥35 with high risk for obesity-related morbidity or mortality.

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Definitions:

Braided Streams

Networks of river channels that are separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars, typically found in environments with high sediment loads.

Cutoff Meanders

These are bends in a river that have been isolated from the main flow due to the river carving a shorter path.

Braided Stream

A network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars, typically found in areas with high sediment supply.

Sinuosity

The measure of how much a river or stream meanders or the degree of its winding path.