Obesity and Underweight Are Associated with an Increased Risk of Death after Lung Transplantation

Rationale: Obesity is considered a relative contraindication to lung transplantation, based on studies that have not accounted for key confounders. Little is known about the risk of death for underweight candidates after transplantation. Objectives: To examine the associations of pretransplant obesi...

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Hauptverfasser: Lederer, David J., Wilt, Jessie S., D'Ovidio, Frank, Bacchetta, Matthew D., Shah, Lori, Ravichandran, Shankari, Lenoir, Jenny, Klein, Brenda, Sonett, Joshua R., Arcasoy, Selim M.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: American Thoracic Society 2009
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E. Transplantation
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773915/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19608717
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200903-0425OC
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