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History of spine surgery in older obese patients

Goal: To study the interaction of obesity and age in patients with multiple spine surgeries. Methods: Data on the body mass index (BMI) of 956 patients were collected and classified into four groups: non-obese (BMI <30 kg/m(2)), obese-class I (BMI ≥30 kg/m(2)), obese-class II (BMI ≥35 kg/m(2)) an...

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Autores principales: Walid, M. Sami, Zaytseva, Nadezhda
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21468327
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/000128