Obesity paradox among patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study

Abstract Background Obesity has been recognized as the risk factor for postoperative complication for surgical patients. However, recent studies have showed protective effect of obesity in surgical and non-surgical patients. Our study is to examine the association of body mass index(BMI) with early...

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Main Authors: Lulu Ma, Xuerong Yu, Xisheng Weng, Jin Lin, Wenwei Qian, Yuguang Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-11-01
Series:BMC Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12893-022-01806-6