Epidemiology and outcomes of obese critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand.

CONCLUSION: We describe the epidemiology of obesity within a critically ill Australian and New Zealand population and confirm that some level of obesity is associated with lower mortality, both overall and across a range of diagnostic categories and important subgroups. Further research should focus on potential confounders such as nutritional status and the appropriateness of BMI in isolation as an anthropometric measure in critically ill patients. PMID: 32102641 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32102641?dopt=Abstract

Source: Critical Care and Resuscitation - February 28, 2020 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Crit Care Resusc Source Type: research