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The obesity rate has risen dramatically, from 13% of men and 17% of women in 1980 to 28% of men and 34% of women in 1999-2000. Increasingly, outpatient surgery providers are faced with the question: Can we handle these people as outpatients?

As obesity rates rise, providers ask: How obese is too obese for outpatient?

March 1, 2005

The obesity rate has risen dramatically, from 13% of men and 17% of women in 1980 to 28% of men and 34% of women in 1999-2000. Increasingly, outpatient surgery providers are faced with the question: Can we handle these people as outpatients?