Journal article
Impact of BMI on clinically significant unsuspected findings as determined at postmortem examination
American journal of clinical pathology, v 125(1)
01 Jan 2006
PMID: 16483001
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Abstract
We conducted a retrospective cohort study based on autopsy reports of 311 patients who underwent full postmortem examinations from January 1, 1999, to December 31, 2002. Clinically unsuspected diagnoses were categorized as follows: class I, major clinically unsuspected diagnoses that were responsible for death; class H, major clinically unsuspected diagnoses that were not directly responsible for death but if left undiagnosed may have resulted in patient death; and class V, no clinically unsuspected diagnoses.
Two multivariate analyses were performed using 4 variables to predict class I diagnoses. Both analyses inclucled the variables sex, race, and age; the fourth variable included umbilicus pannus size or body mass index (BMI). Only BMI (P = .006) and umbilicus pannus size (P = .037) were independent predictors of class I diagnoses.
Obese patients were 1.65 times more likely (relative risk, 1.65) to have a class I diagnosis than the normal weight and underweight groups combined (confidence interval. 1.04-2.64). Patients with obese-level BMIs seem to be at increased risk for clinically significant unsuspected diagnoses compared with underweight and normal weigh populations.
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- Title
- Impact of BMI on clinically significant unsuspected findings as determined at postmortem examination
- Creators
- S GabrielE J GracelyB S Fyfe
- Publication Details
- American journal of clinical pathology, v 125(1)
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- MD (Doctor of Medicine) Program
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000234578600016
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-30644462708
- Other Identifier
- 991019168292204721
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