Monthly Archives: January 2019

Dr Ivaylo Tzvetkov is a long standing member of International Federation of Surgery for Obesity with positive feedback from patients and colleagues. He is practicing safe and medical based and relevant to highest clinical international standards weight loss surgery. He has performed more than 780 Bariatric procedures in the last 12 years with 0.5% of […]

More than half of the European population is overweight [body mass index (BMI) >25 and <30 kg/m2] and up to 30% is obese (BMI>30 kg/m2). Overweight and obesity are associated with many comorbidities such as: insulin resistance/type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, cholelithiasis, cancer, liver steatosis, gastroesophageal reflux, obstructive sleep apnea, degenerative joint disease, gout, and […]

According to IFSO / International Federation for Surgery of Morbid Obеsity/ there are a number of widely accepted criteria which make a patient suitable for Bariatric weight loss surgery: Weight greater than 45kg above the ideal body weight for sex, and height. BMI > 40 by itself or >35 if there is an associated obesity […]

One of the Lancet studies confirmed that obesity and overweight is a growing problem worldwide, even in countries that in the past have had problems with lack of food. The study analyzed the change in body mass index (BMI) from 1,698 studies among 19.2 million adults in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014. The researchers […]