Traumatic injuries among adult obese patients in southern Taiwan: a cross-sectional study based on a trauma registry system

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• 作者：Jung-Fang Chuang ; Cheng-Shyuan Rau ; Pao-Jen Kuo ; Yi-Chun Chen…
• 关键词：Trauma ; Obese ; Injury Severity Score ; Fracture ; Mortality ; Hospital length of stay
• 刊名：BMC Public Health
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：454 KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2458

文摘

Background The adverse impact of obesity has been extensively studied in the general population; however, the added risk of obesity on trauma-related mortality remains controversial. This study investigated and compared mortality as well injury patterns and length of stay (LOS) in obese and normal-weight patients hospitalized for trauma in the hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) of a Level I trauma center in southern Taiwan.