The effects of obesity on surgical complications and postoperative prognosis of epithelial ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To comprehensively evaluate and compare surgical outcomes of obese patients versus non-obese patients for surgical complications and postoperative prognosis due to epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).

Methods

Studies were obtained from database search systems of Medline (PubMed) and Embase. Data were analyzed by the meta-analysis method and the random-effect or fixed-effect model. The heterogeneity between the studies was evaluated by I2 index and the data were analyzed using STATA version 15.1 and Review Manager version 5.4.

Results

14 studies with 4858 cases of proven epithelial ovarian cancer who underwent extensive surgery were included. Obesity may be a risk factor of the low surgical complex score (RR1.08, 95% CI 1.01-1.15, p = 0.05), but had no manifestin

SUBMITTER: Sheng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11948763 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature