ArticleJournal of intensive care medicine2020
Outcomes and Resource Use Among Overweight and Obese Children With Sepsis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce.Critical care medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Feeding or Failing? Rethinking Nutrition Therapy in Pediatric Critical Care.Current nutrition reports · 2026Review
- Obesity as a Risk Factor in Pediatric Sepsis: A Retrospective Comparative Study Under the Phoenix Definition.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Understanding the Co-Epidemic of Obesity and COVID-19: Current Evidence, Comparison with Previous Epidemics, Mechanisms, and Preventive and Therapeutic Perspectives.Current obesity reports · 2021Review
- Obesity and immune status in children.Current opinion in pediatrics · 2020Review
- The Collision of Meta-Inflammation and SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Infection.Endocrinology · 2020Review
- Reopening Schools Safely: The Case for Collaboration, Constructive Disruption of Pre-Coronavirus 2019 Expectations, and Creative Solutions.The Journal of pediatrics · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effect of overweight and obesity on outcomes and resource use among patients with sepsis in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
designRetrospective analysis of clinical characteristics, resource use, and mortality among children 0 to 20 years of age admitted to the C.S. MottChildren's Hospital PICU (University of Michigan) between January 2009 and December 2015, with a diagnostic code for sepsis at admission (based on MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsA total of 454 participants met the inclusion criteria. Seventy-six were categorized as underweight (body mass index [BMI] percentile <5th) and were excluded, which left a final sample size of 378 participants. Children with a BMI
conclusionsAlthough PICU mortality and length of stay were similar for obese-overweight patients and normal weight critically ill children with sepsis, there was significantly higher use of specialized organ-supportive technology among obese patients, likely indicating higher occurrence of multiple organ dysfunction.
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