Underweight is independently associated with mortality in post-operative and non-operative patients admitted to the intensive care unit: a retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Low and high body mass index (BMI) have been recently shown to be associated with increased and decreased mortality after ICU admission, respectively. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of BMI on mortality and length of stay in patients admitted to the intensive care...

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Autores principales: Finkielman, Javier D, Gajic, Ognjen, Afessa, Bekele
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15462681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-4-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15462681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-4-3

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