The Role of Obesity in Sepsis Outcome among Critically Ill Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis
Table 2
Distribution of intensive care unit patients according to the main reason for admission, BMI, and survival. denotes the difference in survival between obese and nonobese patients.
Reasons for admission
Nonobese (BMI ≤ 29.9)
Obese (BMI ≥ 30)
BMI ≤ 18.5
18.6 ≤ BMI ≥ 24.9
25 ≤ BMI ≥ 29.9
All
30 ≤ BMI ≥ 39.9
BMI ≥ 40
All
Spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage (87)
0 (0%)
32 (25%)
53 (28%)
85 (27%)
2 (50%)
0 (0%)
2 (50%)
1.000
Sepsis (125)
0 (0%)
40 (35%)
47 (51%)
87 (44%)
33 (85%)
5 (20%)
38 (76%)
<0.001
Respiratory insufficiency (82)
4 (50%)
25 (20%)
34 (41%)
63 (33%)
14 (50%)
5 (0%)
19 (37%)
0.788
Postoperative observation (373)
5 (0%)
159 (9%)
138 (13%)
302 (11%)
60 (2%)
11 (18%)
71 (4%)
0.115
Trauma (125)
0 (0%)
63 (17%)
40 (15%)
103 (17%)
20 (0%)
2 (100%)
22 (9%)
0.734
Others (42)
0 (0%)
10 (40%)
21 (29%)
31 (32%)
9 (33%)
2 (100%)
11 (45%)
0.481
All (834)
9 (22%)
329 (17%)
333 (25%)
671 (21%)
138 (29%)
25 (28%)
163 (29%)
0.037
Data are number or patients that survived/deceased. BMI (kg/m2). Coma, epilepsy, myocardial infarction, and intoxication.
