Can Patient Selection Explain the Obesity Paradox in Orthopaedic Hip Surgery? An Analysis of the ACS-NSQIP Registry

BACKGROUND: The “obesity paradox” is a phenomenon described in prior research in which patients who are obese have been shown to have lower postoperative mortality and morbidity compared with normal-weight individuals. The paradox is that clinical experience suggests that obesity is a risk factor fo...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Joyce C., Matelski, John, Gandhi, Rajiv, Jackson, Timothy, Urbach, David, Cram, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2018
Materias:
Clinical Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5916618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29480892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11999.0000000000000218

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5916618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29480892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11999.0000000000000218

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