The obesity paradox in the ICU: Real or not?

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Dickerson, Roland N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; APOPROTEIN; CD59 ANTIGEN; ICOSANOID; LEPTIN; LIPOPROTEIN; RESOLVIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAT MASS; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; FEMALE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; OBESITY; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84878928239     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc12715     Document Type: Note

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