Influence of obesity on in-hospital and postoperative outcomes of hepatic resection for malignancy: a 10-year retrospective analysis from the US National Inpatient Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The influence of obesity on the outcomes of curative liver resection for malignancies remains controversial. We aimed to compare the in-hospital outcomes of liver resection for malignancy between obese and non-obese patients.

Design

This was a population-based, retrospective, observational study using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the largest all-payer US inpatient care database.

Setting

Hospitalisations of adults ≥18 years old with diagnoses of primary hepatobiliary malignancy or secondary malignant neoplasms of liver in the USA were identified from the NIS database between 2005 and 2014.

Participants

Data of 18 398 patients ≥18 years old and underwent liver resection without pancreatic resection in the NIS were extracted. All inc

SUBMITTER: He J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720254 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature