Authors
TM Drake, D Nepogodiev, SJ Chapman, JC Glasbey, C Khatri, CY Kong, HA Claireaux, MF Bath, M Mohan, L McNamee, M Kelly, H Mitchell, JE Fitzgerald, EM Harrison, A Bhangu, HA Claireaux, I Antoniou, R Dean, N Davies, S Trecarten, I Henderson, C Holmes, J Wylie, RH Shuttleworth, A Jindal, F Hughes, P Gouda, L McNamee, R Fleck, M Hanrahan, P Karunakaran, JH Chen, MC Sykes, RK Sethi, S Suresh, P Patel, M Patel, RK Varma, J Mushtaq, B Gundogan, W Bolton, M Mohan, T Khan, J Burke, R Morley, N Favero, R Adams, V Thirumal, ED Kennedy, KK Ong, YH Tan, J Gabriel, A Bakhsh, JYL Low, A Yener, V Paraoan, R Preece, TW Tilston, E Cumber, S Dean, T Ross, E McCance, H Amin, L Satterthwaite, KD Clement, R Gratton, ED Mills, SM Chiu, G Hung, NM Rafiq, JDB Hayes, KL Robertson, K Dynes, HC Huang, S Assadullah, JW Duncumb, RDC Moon, SX Poo, JK Mehta, KR Joshi, R Callan, JM Norris, NJ Chilvers, H Keevil, P Jull, S Mallick, D Elf, L Carr, C Player, EC Barton, AL Martin, SG Ratu, EJ Roberts, PN Phan, AR Dyal, JE Rogers, AD Henson, NB Reid, D Burke, G Culleton, S Lynne, D Burke, S Mansoor, C Brennan, R Blessed, C Holloway, A Hill, T Goldsmith, S Mackin, S Kim, E Woin, G Brent, J Coffin, O Ziff, Z Momoh, R Debenham, M Ahmed, CS Yong, JC Wan, HC Copley, P Raut, FI Chaudhry, RH Shuttleworth, G Nixon, C Dorman, R Tan, S Kanabar, N Canning, M Dolaghan, N Bell, M McMenamin, A Chhabra, K Duke, L Turner, T Patel, LS Chew, M Mirza, S Lunawat, B Oremule, N Ward, M Khan, ET Tan, D Maclennan, RJ McGregor, EG Chisholm, EJ Griffin, L Bell, BA Hughes, J Davies, H Haq
Publication date
2016/7/18
Journal
British Journal of Surgery
Volume
103
Issue
9
Pages
1157-1172
Publisher
Wiley
Description
Background
There is currently conflicting evidence surrounding the effects of obesity on postoperative outcomes. Previous studies have found obesity to be associated with adverse events, but others have found no association. The aim of this study was to determine whether increasing body mass index (BMI) is an independent risk factor for development of major postoperative complications.
Methods
This was a multicentre prospective cohort study across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Consecutive patients undergoing elective or emergency gastrointestinal surgery over a 4-month interval (October–December 2014) were eligible for inclusion. The primary outcome was the 30-day major complication rate (Clavien–Dindo grade III–V). BMI was grouped according to the World Health Organization classification. Multilevel logistic regression models were used to adjust for patient …
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