ArticleHeliyon2023
Association of obesity and mortality in sepsis patients: A meta-analysis from observational evidence.
Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The obesity paradox in murine sepsis models: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2025Pooled it
- Do Obesity Classifications Create the Obesity Paradox? A Scoping Review of Obesity Definitions Applied in Sepsis Research.Clinical obesity · 2026Article
- Risk Factors for Adverse Outcomes in Cancer Patients With Sepsis.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2026Article
- Association between advanced lung cancer inflammation index and mortality in critically ill septic patients: analysis of the MIMIC-IV database.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Pronounced effects of the sepsis-obesity paradox in elderly and male individuals without septic shock and the role of immune-inflammatory status: an analysis of MIMIC-IV data.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Multiplexed longitudinal analysis of the cellular and microbial dynamics of acute polymicrobial sepsis in mice.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Impact of unintentional weight loss on 30-day mortality in intensive care unit sepsis patients: a retrospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Thermoregulation and survival during sepsis: insights from the cecal ligation and puncture experimental model.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2024Article
- Correlation between body mass index and gender-specific 28-day mortality in patients with sepsis: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
The project aims to investigate the correlation between obesity, overweight, or low body weight and the risk of mortality in sepsis patients. We performed a rigorous and thorough search of major electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library, from the inception of these databases up to March 28, 2023. The data were analyzed with Stata software (version 16.0). Twelve studies incorporating 521,207 individuals were enrolled. The results demonstrated that obesity (OR = 0.82; 95% CI: 0.69-0.97;
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