Obesity and site-specific nosocomial infection risk in the intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obese patients are at higher than normal risk for postoperative infections such as pneumonia and surgical site infections, but the relation between obesity and infections acquired in the intensive care unit (ICU) is unclear. Our objective was to describe the relation between body mass index (BMI) and site-specific ICU-acquired infection risk in adults.

Methods

Secondary analysis of a large, dual-institutional, prospective observational study of critically ill and injured surgical patients remaining in the ICU for at least 48 h. Patients were classified into BMI groups according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute guidelines: or= 40

SUBMITTER: Dossett LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2963594 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature