ArticleWorld journal of surgery2020
Association of Genetic Risk of Obesity with Postoperative Complications Using Mendelian Randomization.
Article in World journal of surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Trunk muscle strength assessment as a predictor of complications in patients undergoing incisional hernia repair.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Article
- Assessment of the causal effect of lifestyle factors on postoperative infections based on Mendelian randomization.Medicine · 2025Article
- Genome-wide lipidomic profiling reveals causal lipid species as targets for inguinal hernia risk.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2025Article
- Impact of overweight on patients undergoing laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy: analysis of surgical outcomes in a high-volume center.BMC surgery · 2024Article
- The causal association between body fat distribution and risk of abdominal wall hernia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2024Article
- Midline incisional hernia guidelines: the European Hernia Society.The British journal of surgery · 2023Article
- Quantifying the phenome-wide disease burden of obesity using electronic health records and genomics.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
- Using Phecodes for Research with the Electronic Health Record: From PheWAS to PheRS.Annual review of biomedical data science · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe extent to which obesity and genetics determine postoperative complications is incompletely understood.
methodsWe performed a retrospective study using two population cohorts with electronic health record (EHR) data. The first included 736,726 adults with body mass index (BMI) recorded between 1990 and 2017 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The second cohort consisted of 65,174 individuals from 12 institutions contributing EHR and genome-wide genotyping data to the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network. Pairwise logistic regression analyses were used to measure the association of BMI categories with postoperative complications derived from International Classification of Disease-9 codes, including postoperative infection, incisional hernia, and intestinal obstruction. A genetic risk score was constructed from 97 obesity-risk single-nucleotide polymorphisms for a Mendelian randomization study to determine the association of genetic risk of obesity on postoperative complications. Logistic regression analyses were adjusted for sex, age, site, and race/principal components.
resultsIndividuals with overweight or obese BMI (≥25 kg/m
conclusionsClinical and Mendelian randomization studies suggest that obesity, as measured by BMI, is associated with the development of postoperative incisional hernia and infection.
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