Protective Role of Obesity on Trauma Impact: A Retrospective Analysis of Patients with Surgical Blunt Bowel Mesenteric Injury Due to Road Traffic Accidents

BACKGROUND: The “cushion effect” theory proposes that increased body mass index (BMI) is associated with less severe abdomen injury following blunt abdomen trauma, while the “obesity paradox” describes the protective effect of obesity against mortality. However, most previous studies used the abdomi...

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Autores principales: Hsieh, Ting-Min, Chuang, Po-Chun, Liu, Chun-Ting, Wu, Bei-Yu, Liu, Yueh-Wei, Hsieh, Ching-Hua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2022
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9395217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36003412
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S374469

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9395217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36003412
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S374469

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