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Although I am not a big fan of BMI or "Body Mass Index", it does offer a very rough means of determining whether a person is heavy enough to be at significant risk for medical complications. Being at such risk is a criterion I use to help determine whether a person is a candidate for pharmacologic (medication) therapy. To put it another way, if I am going to treat someone for the disease of obesity, the person has to actually suffer from that disease. This means, unfortunately, that people who are not overweight enough (that is have a BMI lower than 30) generally are not candidates for weight control medications. You can use the chart at the right of this page to determine how much you need to weigh to have a BMI of 30. There ARE Exceptions Weight loss CAN greatly improve health for people with certain medical conditions even when those people have a BMI lower than 30. In these cases, for such people, pharmacologic therapy is still an option. Among these "co-morbid" conditions are type 2 diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and other conditions. If you believe you may qualify for our program on the basis of co-morbid illness, please feel free to call us to discuss the matter further. |
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