Overweight or Obesity is an Unfavorable Long-Term Prognostic Factor for Patients who Underwent Gastrectomy for Stage II/III Gastric Cancer

Overweight or Obesity is an Unfavorable Long-Term Prognostic Factor for Patients who Underwent Gastrectomy for Stage II/III Gastric Cancer

Background Obesity has been reported to be a prognostic factor for many diseases in epidemiological studies; however, the results of studies examining the relationship between obesity and gastric cancer (GC) prognosis are inconsistent. Methods A total of 460 patients with Stage II and III GC who und...

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Veröffentlicht in:World journal of surgery 2019-07, Vol.43 (7), p.1766-1776
Hauptverfasser: Kambara, Yuichi, Yuasa, Norihiro, Takeuchi, Eiji, Miyake, Hideo, Nagai, Hidemasa, Yoshioka, Yuichiro, Okuno, Masataka, Miyata, Kanji
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Abdominal Abscess - etiology
Abdominal Surgery
Abscesses
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Body mass
Body Mass Index
Body size
Body weight
Cancer
Cardiac Surgery
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy, Adjuvant
Confidence intervals
Correlation analysis
Disease-Free Survival
Epidemiology
Female
Gastrectomy
Gastrectomy - adverse effects
Gastric cancer
General Surgery
Humans
Lymph nodes
Lymph Nodes - surgery
Male
Medical prognosis
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Multivariate analysis
Neoplasm Staging
Obesity
Obesity - complications
Operative Time
Original Scientific Report
Overweight
Patients
Stomach Neoplasms - complications
Stomach Neoplasms - pathology
Stomach Neoplasms - surgery
Surgery
Surgical site infections
Surgical Wound Infection - etiology
Thoracic Surgery
Vascular Surgery
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Zusammenfassung:Background Obesity has been reported to be a prognostic factor for many diseases in epidemiological studies; however, the results of studies examining the relationship between obesity and gastric cancer (GC) prognosis are inconsistent. Methods A total of 460 patients with Stage II and III GC who underwent open R0 gastrectomy were included. Age, sex, body mass index (BMI classified into 
ISSN:0364-2313
1432-2323
DOI:10.1007/s00268-019-04969-1