Does obesity affect outcomes of treatment for lumbar stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis? Analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT)

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 1933-1946

  Rihn, Jeffrey A ^a   Radcliff, Kristen ^a   Hilibrand, Alan S ^a   Anderson, David T ^a   Zhao, Wenyan ^b   Lurie, Jon ^b   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^a   Freedman, Mitch K ^a   Albert, Todd J ^a   Weinstein, James N ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Degenerative spondylolisthesis; Lumbar; Outcomes; Spinal stenosis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; OBESITY; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 36; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OBESITY; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868642274     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31825e21b2     Document Type: Review

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