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Obesity affects more than someone’s waist measurement or pants size, and a surprising number of health risks are connected to obesity. Americans are one of the largest groups of overweight people and have the associated health problems.

There are several popular approaches to bariatric surgery, and the one known as the LAP-BAND is one of the most widespread. It does have some unique features, and this leads to some common concerns.

Bariatric surgery is a blanket term for surgeries used to obtain weight loss for the morbidly or severely obese. It comes with associated health benefits such elimination of diabetes and high cholesterol.