Impact of Obesity and Underweight on Surgical Outcome of Lumbar Disc Herniation

Table 1

Demographic data of our treated patients.

Group	Number	Sex		Mean age ± SD	Mean BMI ± SD
		Male	Female
Underweight	24	11 (45.8%)	13 (54.2%)	40.2±3.4	17.7±0.6
Normal	81	50 (61.7%)	31 (38.3%)	36.3±3.2	22.1±1.7
Overweight	56	27 (48.2%)	29 (51.8)	37.5±2.7	27.4±0.9
Obese	45	24 (53.3%)	21 (46.7%)	38.3±1.4	32.2±0.8