Body Mass Index and Mortality in Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Other Diseases: A Cohort Study in 35,506 ICU Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Obesity is a risk factor for severe coronavirus disease 2019 and might play a role in its pathophysiology. It is unknown whether body mass index is related to clinical outcome following ICU admission, as observed in various other categories of critically ill patients. We investigated the relationship between body mass index and inhospital mortality in critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 patients and in cohorts of ICU patients with non-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, and multiple trauma.

Design

Multicenter observational cohort study.

Setting

Eighty-two Dutch ICUs participating in the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation quality registry.

Patients

Thirty-five-thousand five-hundred six critic

SUBMITTER: Kooistra EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8670082 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature