Mild obesity is protective after severe burn injury

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 258, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1119-1129

  Jeschke, Marc G ^a   Finnerty, Celeste C ^b,c   Emdad, Fatemeh ^b   Rivero, Haidy G ^b   Kraft, Robert ^b   Williams, Felicia N ^b   Gamelli, Richard L ^d   Gibran, Nicole S ^e   Klein, Matthew B ^e   Arnoldo, Brett D ^f   Tompkins, Ronald G ^g   Herndon, David N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

body mass index; burn; inflammation; insulin resistance; obesity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN INFARCTION; BURN; BURN INFECTION; BURN PATIENT; CHILD; COLLOID; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL; UNDERWEIGHT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; BURNS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84888135193     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182984d19     Document Type: Article

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