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More risks and complications for elective spine surgery in morbidly obese patients

Surgical neurology international, 2017
Background: The vast majority of studies emphasize the greater morbidity/mortality for elective spine surgery in morbidly obese patients. Methods: This review focuses on the increased morbidity/mortality of performing elective spinal operations in ...
N. Epstein
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Thoracoscopic radical surgery for a morbidly obese patient with early lung cancer after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a case report

Surgical Case Reports, 2020
Background We experienced a case of early stage lung cancer involving a morbidly obese patient. Obesity is associated with a higher incidence of surgical complications.
Shingo Iwata, Akeo Hagiwara, Yutaka Harima   +2 more
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The effect of Systolic and diastolic blood pressure on Tp-e interval in patients divided according to World Health Organization classification for body mass index

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2021
Background: Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT ratio and Tp-e/QTc ratio are electrocardiographic markers and indices of ventricular arrhythmogenic events. We aimed to investigate ventricular repolarization in normal weight, overweight, obese and morbidly obese ...
Ali Bağcı, Fatih Aksoy, Hasan Aydin Baş, İsmail Barkin Işık, Hikmet Orhan   +4 more
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Is There a Difference in PROMs Between Morbidly Obese Patients and Nonobese Patients Following Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty?

Arthroplasty Today, 2023
Background: Patient satisfaction and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are important for patients, surgeons, and payers in the current healthcare climate.
Sarag Abhari, MD, Evan B. Rhea, MD, Derek D. Arrington, BS, Langan S. Smith, BS, Madhusudhan R. Yakkanti, MD, Arthur L. Malkani, MD   +5 more
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The 'fat tax': economic incentives to reduce obesity [PDF]

, 2004
This Briefing Note looks at the potential for the introduction of a "fat tax" into the UK in an effort to reduce the growing prevalence of obesity in Britain. There are different forms such a tax could take.
Leicester, A., Windmeijer, F.
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Morbidly Obese Patients Exhibit Increased CYP2E1-Mediated Oxidation of Acetaminophen

Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 2016
IntroductionAcetaminophen (paracetamol) is mainly metabolized via glucuronidation and sulphation, while the minor pathway through cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2E1 is held responsible for hepatotoxicity.
A. van Rongen, Pyry A. J. Välitalo, M. Peeters, D. Boerma, F. W. Huisman, B. van Ramshorst, E. V. van Dongen, J. N. van den Anker, C. Knibbe   +8 more
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The Body Mass Index and Related Factors of Aged Living in a District of Istanbul, Turkey

International Journal of Gerontology, 2012
Background: To determine the nutritional status of elderly by body mass index (BMI) and to investigate associated factors. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytic study done among 309 elderly, in the Besiktas district of Istanbul ...
Ayse Emel Önal, Seref Seker, Irem Kaya, Nimet Temizkan, Selma Onelge Gur, Ceren Tezoglu, Günay Gungor   +6 more
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Outcome of pregnancy in the morbidly obese woman

South African Family Practice, 2009
Background: Obesity is a growing global health problem. In South Africa, more than half of the adult women are overweight and almost 30% are obese. The problems associated with obesity, such as diabetes, hypertension, thrombo-embolism and coronary heart ...
Eugene Ngoga, David Hall, Fredd Mattheyse, Debby Grové   +3 more
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Overweight and obese patients with nickel allergy have a worse metabolic profile compared to weight matched non-allergic individuals [PDF]

, 2018
A lack of balance between energy intake and expenditure due to overeating or reduced physical activity does not seem to explain entirely the obesity epidemic we are facing, and further factors are therefore being evaluated.
Basciani, S, Costantini, D, De Giorgi, F, GANGITANO, ELENA, Gnessi, L, Lubrano, C., Mariani, S, Masieri, S, PETRANGELI, Elisa, Poggiogalle, E, Tozzi, R, Tuccinardi, D, WATANABE, MIKIKO   +12 more
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European guidelines from the EHTG and ESCP for Lynch syndrome: an updated third edition of the Mallorca guidelines based on gene and gender

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Recommendations for clinical and molecular identification of LS, surgical and endoscopic management of LS‐associated colorectal cancer and preventive measures for cancer were produced. The emphasis was on surgical and gastroenterological aspects of the cancer spectrum.
T. T. Seppälä, A. Latchford, I. Negoi, A. Sampaio Soares, R. Jimenez‐Rodriguez, L. Sánchez‐Guillén, D. G. Evans, N. Ryan, E. J. Crosbie, M. Dominguez‐Valentin, J. Burn, M. Kloor, M. von Knebel Doeberitz, F. J. B. van Duijnhoven, P. Quirke, J. R. Sampson, P. Møller, G. Möslein, on behalf of the European Hereditary Tumour Group (EHTG) and European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP)   +18 more
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