Outcomes of overweight and obese critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory infection.

ABSTRACT: ObjectivesTo assess the association of obesity with outcomes among patients with severe acute respiratory infection.MethodsThis is a retrospective cohort study of patients with severe acute respiratory infection admitted to the intensive care units in four referral hospitals in Saudi Arabia between September 2012 and June 2018. Patients were classified into two groups: overweight-obese patients (body mass index  ≥25 kg/m²) and normal-weight patients (body mass index between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m²). All underweight patients with a body mass index <18.5 kg/m² were excluded from the study.ResultsOf the 421 patients, 294 were in the overweight-obese group and 127 were in the normal-weight group. There was no difference in crude 90-day mortality between the two gro

SUBMITTER: Ayoup AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12417654 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature