Introduction to Passing the Certified Bariatric Nurse Exam




© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Andrew Loveitt, Margaret M. Martin and Marc A. Neff (eds.)Passing the Certified Bariatric Nurses Exam10.1007/978-3-319-41703-5_1


1. Introduction to Passing the Certified Bariatric Nurse Exam



Andrew Loveitt1  


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Department of General Surgery, Rowan University, Stratford, NJ, USA

 



 

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Obesity is an epidemic in the United States of America. This may not be news to most but even the experienced healthcare practitioner must find the following statistics startling:



  • 34.9 % or 78.9 million US adults are obese (BMI greater than 30) [1].


  • The annual medical cost of obesity in the United States was estimated to be $147 billion in 2008 [2].


  • Obesity is associated with nearly one in five US deaths [3].

The fight against obesity became prevalent in 1999 when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first published state-based maps making the rapid progression of obesity across our nation obvious to even the most casual observer (http://​www.​cdc.​gov/​obesity/​data/​prevalence-maps.​html). The fight has continued to rage and sadly we are losing the battle.

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