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A retrospective cohort study examining the association between body mass index and mortality in severe sepsis

Body mass index (BMI) is an easily calculated indicator of a patient’s body mass including muscle mass and body fat percentage and is used to classify patients as underweight or obese. This study is to determine if BMI extremes are associated with increased 28-day mortality and hospital length of st...

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Autores principales: Gaulton, Timothy Glen, Marshall MacNabb, C., Mikkelsen, Mark Evin, Agarwal, Anish Kumar, Cham Sante, S., Shah, Chirag Vinay, Gaieski, David Foster
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Milan 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25647585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11739-015-1200-1