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Obesity and Mortality, Length of Stay and Hospital Cost among Patients with Sepsis: A Nationwide Inpatient Retrospective Cohort Study.

Anh Tuan NguyenChu-Lin TsaiLu-Yu HwangDejian LaiChristine MarkhamBela Patel
Published in: PloS one (2016)
With this large and nationally representative sample of over 1,000 hospitals in the US, we found that obesity was significantly associated with a 16% decrease in the odds of dying among hospitalized sepsis patients; however it was also associated with greater duration and cost of hospitalization.
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