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Obesity and smoking are factors associated with poor prognosis in patients with bacteraemia

BACKGROUND: Bacteraemia is still a major cause of case fatality in all age groups. Our aim was to identify the major underlying conditions constituting risk factors for case fatality in bacteraemia patients. METHODS: The study involved 149 patients (79 male and 70 female) with bacteraemia caused by...

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Main Authors: Huttunen, Reetta, Laine, Janne, Lumio, Jukka, Vuento, Risto, Syrjänen, Jaana
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831474/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17349033
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-13
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