Obesity Research

Study finds obese patients fair better than lean patients when hospitalized for acute heart failure

Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, February 4th, 2007

Researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate. For every 5-unit increase in body mass, the odds of risk-adjusted mortality fell 10 %.

The finding held when adjusted for age, sex, blood urea nitrogen, blood pressure, and additional prognostic factors.

The finding offers more insight into an observed phenomenon in chronic heart failure called the 'obesity paradox.' This is the first study to document that this inverse relationship with BMI holds in the setting of acute hospitalization for heart failure. Further study is...

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