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What are the eligibility criteria for having bariatric surgery in the UK?
Weight loss surgery is done under by the NHS if you have a BMI of 40 or higher, or a BMI between 35 and 40, and an obesity-related ailment that would improve if you lost weight (such as type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure). In this video, Mr. Ahmed Ahmed talks more about the eligibility criteria for bariatric surgery in the UK.
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The eligibility criteria for bariatric surgery in the UK follow the NICE guidelines from the NHS. This means basically to have a body mass index of 40. However, if you have an illness related to obesity, the body mass index threshold can be 35. And if that illness is type 2 diabetes, the threshold is again lowered to 30 for white Caucasians. But if of a Indian subcontinent, the BMI threshold then drops to 28.5.
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