Association between body mass index and mortality in intensive care unit patients with sepsis: A retrospective cohort study
Yunya Zhu, Wenyuan Zhang, Yuting Zhong, Luwen Liang, Ying Li · 2026
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Yunya Zhu, Wenyuan Zhang, Yuting Zhong, Luwen Liang, and Ying Li test the obesity paradox in intensive care sepsis patients. Their 2026 study sorts near fourteen thousand patients from a major care database by body mass at admission. Prior data on weight and sepsis death disagree, they note.
In-hospital death runs about fifteen percent overall. Low weight patients carry higher adjusted death odds than the normal group, near 1.7 fold. Overweight patients show lower odds in the part of the results shown. Ninety-day survival curves and hazard models extend the comparison. Weighting and matching checks in an outside cohort test robustness. Subgroup splits probe where the pattern holds. The authors weigh whether extra mass protects in sepsis or merely marks other advantages.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yunya Zhu, Wenyuan Zhang, Yuting Zhong, Luwen Liang, Ying Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |