The impact of obesity on hospitalized patients with ulcerative colitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity is the fifth leading risk factor for mortality in the world and it has increased among patients with ulcerative colitis in recent years. We examined the impact of obesity on the hospitalized patients admitted primarily with a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis.

Methods

We used the National Inpatient Sample data for the year 2016 to identify patients with ulcerative colitis and compared obese and non-obese patients in terms of length of hospital stay, total charges, and mortality. We used multiple imputations to estimate missing values and survey analysis to estimate the outcomes, and we adjusted for confounders by implementing the inverse probability of treatment weighting using propensity score.

Results

A total of 61,075 admissions with ulcerative col

SUBMITTER: El-Dallal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7903582 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature