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Impact of obesity on hospital complications and mortality in hospitalized patients with hyperglycemia and diabetes

OBJECTIVE: Obesity is associated with increased risk of diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular mortality. Several studies have reported increased length of hospital stay and complications; however, there are also reports of obesity having a protective effect on health, a phenomenon coined the ‘ob...

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Autores principales: Alexopoulos, Anastasia-Stefania, Fayfman, Maya, Zhao, Liping, Weaver, Jeff, Buehler, Lauren, Smiley, Dawn, Pasquel, Francisco J, Vellanki, Priyathama, Haw, J Sonya, Umpierrez, Guillermo E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27486518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjdrc-2016-000200