Overweight in ICU patients: is the body mass index reliable?

Chest. 2005 Feb;127(2):683-4; author reply 684. doi: 10.1378/chest.127.2.683-a.
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Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Body Mass Index*
  • Cause of Death
  • Hospital Mortality*
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units / statistics & numerical data*
  • Obesity / mortality*
  • Prognosis
  • Prospective Studies
  • Protein-Energy Malnutrition / mortality
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Risk Factors