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 PatelPublished 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.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- palliative care
- type diabetes
- acute kidney injury
- healthcare
- newly diagnosed
- weight gain
- septic shock
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- high fat diet induced
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- acute care
- cardiovascular events
- mental health
- emergency department
- risk factors
- skeletal muscle
- cross sectional
- patient reported
- adverse drug