SynthesisInternational journal of obesity (2005)2019
Association of obesity with morbidity and mortality in critically ill children: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.
Synthesis in International journal of obesity (2005), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Weight excess association with severity in children and adolescents with COVID-19: A systematic review.Clinical nutrition ESPEN · 2022Pooled it
- Is Undernutrition Associated With Deterioration of Outcomes in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU): Systematic and Meta-Analysis Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Association of obesity with mortality and clinical outcomes in children and adolescents with transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2021Pooled it
- Feeding or Failing? Rethinking Nutrition Therapy in Pediatric Critical Care.Current nutrition reports · 2026Review
- The Economic and Clinical Burden of Pediatric Obesity Within a Universal Health Coverage System in Thailand: A 9-Year Nationwide Analysis of 14.5 Million Hospitalizations.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Obesity as a Risk Factor in Pediatric Sepsis: A Retrospective Comparative Study Under the Phoenix Definition.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Height status matters for risk of mortality in critically ill children.Journal of intensive care · 2024Article
- The association between nutritional status measured by body mass index and outcomes in the pediatric intensive care unit.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have suggested that obesity might be protective in specific conditions such as critical illness; however, there are controversial data in critically ill children with obesity. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of obesity with mortality and other outcomes in these patients. We conducted a systematic review of observational studies investigating obesity in critically ill children, published by August 2017 in PubMed and Scopus. After screening documents, 15 articles with 142119 patients were included in the systematic review and meta-analysis. The results were reported with odds ratio (OR) or standard mean difference (SMD). The primary outcome was mortality and the secondary outcomes were length of ICU stay (ICU LOS), length of hospital stay (hospital LOS), and duration of mechanical ventilation (MV). The analysis showed that critically ill children without obesity had lower risk of mortality compared to patients with obesity (OR 0.79, 95% CI 0.64 to 0.97, P = 0.025, I
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