The Association of Body Mass Index With Mortality Among Pulmonary Hypertension Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To run a systematic review and meta-analysis of related studies on body mass index (BMI) and the risk of death among pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients, as well as, to shed light on the shape and strength of the dose-response association.

Methods

Studies published up to Jun 2021 in scientific databases such as Scopus, and PubMed as well as Google Scholar were searched. Cohort studies that reported risk estimates for at least two categories of BMI or per certain increase in BMI in relation to mortality in PH patients were included. Summary relative risks were determined with random effects models. Non-linear relationship was discovered with dose-response analysis.

Results

All in all, 15 cohort studies were selected. The number of participants was 127,215 ou

SUBMITTER: Jiang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127599 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature