Obesity and 1-year outcomes in older Americans with severe sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Although critical care physicians view obesity as an independent poor prognostic marker, growing evidence suggests that obesity is, instead, associated with improved mortality following ICU admission. However, this prior empirical work may be biased by preferential admission of obese patients to ICUs, and little is known about other patient-centered outcomes following critical illness. We sought to determine whether 1-year mortality, healthcare utilization, and functional outcomes following a severe sepsis hospitalization differ by body mass index.

Design

Observational cohort study.

Setting

U.S. hospitals.

Patients

We analyzed 1,404 severe sepsis hospitalizations (1999-2005) among Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the nationally representative Healt

SUBMITTER: Prescott HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4205159 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature