Impact of Overweight on Survival and Primary Graft Failure After Heart Transplantation
| Autor: | J.M. Sobrino Márquez, A. Guisado Rasco, E. Lage Gallé, N. Romero Rodríguez, J. Nevado Portero, S. Ballesteros Prada, A. Martínez Martínez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Graft Rejection Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Overweight Body Mass Index Coronary artery disease Internal medicine Humans Medicine Survival analysis Heart transplantation Transplantation business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Middle Aged medicine.disease Survival Analysis Confidence interval Surgery Heart Transplantation Female medicine.symptom business Body mass index |
| Zdroj: | Transplantation Proceedings. 42:3178-3180 |
| ISSN: | 0041-1345 |
| Popis: | Background. Overweight influence on prognosis after heart transplantation remains controversial. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between overweight and survival in this setting. Methods. We evaluated 271 cardiac transplant recipients engrafted from 1991 to 2009 whose age was 50.3 ± 12.1 (mean; SD) years. Their body mass index (BMI) was 25.7 ± 3.9 kg/m 2 . Regarding gender, 85.2% were males. Patients were classified by pretransplantation BMI into group A (>25 kg/m 2 ) and group B ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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