Impact of Body Mass Index of Japanese Gallbladder Cancer Patients on their Postoperative Outcomes

Impact of Body Mass Index of Japanese Gallbladder Cancer Patients on their Postoperative Outcomes

We investigated the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and postoperative outcomes in 450 gallbladder cancer patients in Japan. We collected patient information, including sex, age, underlying disease, BMI, stage, surgery method, postoperative time to discharge, and postoperative Medicare fee...

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Veröffentlicht in:Acta medica Okayama 2019-02, Vol.73 (1), p.51-59
Hauptverfasser: Fujii, Masakuni, Fujimoto, Kenji, Yabe, Syuntaro, Nasu, Junichiro, Miyaike, Jiro, Yoshioka, Masao, Shiode, Junji, Yamamoto, Kazuhide, Matsuda, Shinya
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Zusammenfassung:We investigated the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and postoperative outcomes in 450 gallbladder cancer patients in Japan. We collected patient information, including sex, age, underlying disease, BMI, stage, surgery method, postoperative time to discharge, and postoperative Medicare fees, from the Japanese administrative database associated with the Diagnosis Procedure Combination system. We classified patient BMIs as underweight (BMI
ISSN:0386-300X
DOI:10.18926/amo/56458