ArticleERJ open research2021
Association between body mass index and mortality in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
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- Association between body mass index and the prognosis of community-acquired pneumonia in patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: a retrospective cohort study using a nationwide inpatient database.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Role of lifestyle factors on the development and long-term prognosis of pneumonia and cardiovascular disease in the Chinese population.Chinese medical journal · 2025Article
- Association of obesity on short- and long-term survival in patients with moderate to severe pneumonia-related ARDS: a retrospective cohort study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Poor clinical outcomes among hospitalized obese patients with COVID-19 are related to inflammation and not respiratory mechanics.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2025Article
- Obesity paradox in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: Have you fully considered the confounding factors?World journal of clinical cases · 2025Article
- Combined Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index-Prognostic Nutritional Index Score in Evaluating the Prognosis of Patients with Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Improving prognostication of pneumonia among elderly patients: usefulness of suPAR.BMC geriatrics · 2024Observational
- Adiponectin as a predictor of mortality and readmission in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Association between body mass index and clinical outcomes in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest undergoing extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A multicenter observational study.Resuscitation plus · 2023Article
- Does the "Obesity Paradox" Have an Expiration Date? A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Implications of obesity and adiposopathy on respiratory infections; focus on emerging challenges.World journal of clinical cases · 2023Review
- Obesity Paradox in Lung Diseases: What Explains It?Obesity facts · 2023Review
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- Severity of underweight affects the development of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease; a nationwide longitudinal study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Analysis of the association between atrial fibrillation with in-hospital mortality in people admitted for community-acquired pneumonia through an observational, nation-wide, sex-stratified study.Scientific reports · 2022Observational
- Effect of Undernutrition and Obesity on Clinical Outcomes in Adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Comparison of mortality and clinical failure rates between vancomycin and teicoplanin in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
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Abstract
The obesity paradox postulates that increased body mass index (BMI) is protective in certain patient populations. We aimed to investigate the association of BMI and different weight classes with outcomes in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). This cohort study is a secondary data analysis of the University of Louisville Pneumonia Study database, a prospective study of hospitalised adult patients with CAP from June, 2014, to May, 2016, in Louisville, KY, USA. BMI as a predictor was assessed both as a continuous and categorical variable. Patients were categorised as weight classes based on World Health Organization definitions: BMI of <18.5 kg·m
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