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Exploring the role of obesity and overweight in predicting postoperative outcome of abdominal surgery in a sub-Saharan African setting: a prospective cohort study

OBJECTIVE: Current literature on the role of excess weight in predicting surgical outcome is controversial. In sub-Saharan Africa, there is extreme paucity of data regarding this issue in spite of the increasing rates of obesity and overweight in the region. This prospective cohort study, carried ou...

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Autores principales:	Kadia, Benjamin Momo, Chichom-Mefire, Alain, Halle-Ekane, Gregory Edie
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2018
Materias:	Research Note
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30340649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3853-0

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