Obesity is an independent risk factor of mortality in severely injured blunt trauma patients

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 983-987

  Neville, Angela L ^a   Brown, Carlos V R ^a   Weng, Janie ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Velmahos, George C ^a  

^a Los Angeles Co Univ S CA Med C   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 4444371370     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.9.983     Document Type: Article

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