Journal Club - Recent Additions

August - 2014

Previous Next    

Showing Journal 7 of 12


Obesity and 1-Year Outcomes in Older Americans With Severe Sepsis

Hallie C. Prescott, Virginia W. Chang, James M. O’Brien Jr, Kenneth M. Langa, Theodore J. Iwashyna Crit Care Med, 2014, 42:1766–1774

Comment

This observational study of 1404 severe sepsis hospitalisations from Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the US nationally representative Health and Retirement Study, adds further evidence to the obesity paradox. 

In this cohort, 42.5% were normal...


August



Previous Comments

No Comments yet.