Obesity Disease and Surgery

Table 1

(a) Adults and (b) children.

(a)

Underweight	Normal	Overweight	Obese (≥30 kg/m^2)
			Mild	Moderate	Severe or morbid
>18.5 kg/m^2	18.5–24.9 kg/m^2	25–29.9 kg/m^2	30–34.9 kg/m^2	35–39.9 kg/m^2	≥40 kg/m^2

(b)

Overweight	Obese	Severely obese
85th–94th percentile	95th percentile or ≥30 kg/m^2, whichever is lower	99th percentile