The impact of obesity on sepsis mortality: A retrospective review

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kuperman, Ethan F ^a   Showalter, John W ^b   Lehman, Erik B ^c   Leib, Amy E ^c   Kraschnewski, Jennifer L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Diabetes mellitus; Inpatients; Mortality; Obesity; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881495789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-377     Document Type: Article

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