Is obesity protective during critical illness? An analysis of a national ICU database

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Critical Illness 100%
• Obesity 74%
• Databases 64%
• Length of Stay 37%
• Body Mass Index 35%
• Overweight 29%
• Morbid Obesity 19%
• Thinness 18%
• Hospital Mortality 15%
• Simplified Acute Physiology Score 11%
• Odds Ratio 10%
• Life Expectancy 8%
• Critical Care 7%
• Sepsis 6%
• Patient Care 6%
• Chronic Disease 6%
• Medicine 6%
• Body Weight 5%
• Multivariate Analysis 5%
• Cohort Studies 5%
• Regression Analysis 5%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 5%
• Logistic Models 5%
• Demography 5%
• Delivery of Health Care 5%
• Morbidity 4%
• Population 3%