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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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| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2004
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| 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 |