The Obesity Paradox in the Trauma Patient: Normal May not Be Better

Objective The obesity paradox is the association of increased survival for overweight and obese patients compared to normal and underweight patients, despite an increased risk of morbidity. The obesity paradox has been demonstrated in many disease states but has yet to be studied in trauma. The obje...

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Veröffentlicht in:	World journal of surgery 2020-06, Vol.44 (6), p.1817-1823
Hauptverfasser:	Dvorak, J. E., Lester, E. L. W., Maluso, P. J., Tatebe, L., Schlanser, V., Kaminsky, M., Messer, T., Dennis, A. J., Starr, F., Bokhari, F.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abdominal Surgery Adult Aged Body Mass Index Body weight Cardiac Surgery Female General Surgery Hospital Mortality Humans Length of Stay Logistic Models Male Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Morbidity Mortality Obesity Obesity - mortality Original Scientific Report Overweight Paradoxes Patients Regression analysis Statistical analysis Statistical significance Surgery Thoracic Surgery Trauma Underweight Vascular Surgery Ventilators Ventilators, Mechanical Wounds and Injuries - mortality Wounds and Injuries - therapy
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