ArticleHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2024
Obesity and abdominal hernia in ambulatory patients, 2018-2023.
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- Visceral Fat Volume and Inguinal Hernia After Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy: A Three-Dimensional CT Analysis.International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association · 2026Article
- Decoding the genetic architecture of hernia through genome-wide association and multi-trait analyses.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Prehabilitation in Obese Patients with Ventral Hernia: A Narrative Review and Proposal of a Clinical Algorithm.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- The Outcomes of Transabdominal Preperitoneal Repair for Groin Hernias In a Single Consultant Series.Cureus · 2025Article
- Circulating Biomarkers as Potential Risk Factors for Inguinal Hernia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine the relationship between abdominal hernia and obesity. Although obesity is frequently cited as a risk factor for abdominal hernia, few studies have confirmed this association (Menzo et al. Surg Obes Relat Dis 14:1221-1232. 10.1016/j.soard.2018.07.005, 2018).
methodsA cross-sectional study of primary care ambulatory patients aged older than 16 years treated at UCLA Health from 01/01/2018 to 06/06/2023. Abdominal hernia was identified by clinic encounter ICD-10 codes (K40-K46).
resultsThere were 41,703 hernias identified among 1,362,440 patients (306.1 per10,000) with a mean age of 62.5 ± 16.1 years, and 57.6% were men. Nearly half (44.7%) of all abdominal hernias were diaphragmatic. There was an approximately equal distribution of the ventral (28.7%) and inguinal (24.3%) hernia. Each hernia type had a different relationship with obesity: The odds of having a ventral hernia increased with BMI in both sexes: BMI 25-29.9 kg/m
conclusionsThe relationship between hernia and obesity is complex with some hernias decreasing in prevalence as obesity increases. Further research is needed to better understand this paradoxical relationship.
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