Morbid obesity in hospitalized young adults: Insights from a national database

Ahmed Maraey; Ahmed Hashim; Hadeer Elsharnoby; Mahmoud Khalil; Ahmed Elzanaty

doi:10.1016/j.orcp.2022.03.004

Morbid obesity in hospitalized young adults: Insights from a national database

Obes Res Clin Pract. 2022 Mar-Apr;16(2):177-179. doi: 10.1016/j.orcp.2022.03.004. Epub 2022 Apr 6.

Authors

Ahmed Maraey¹, Ahmed Hashim², Hadeer Elsharnoby³, Mahmoud Khalil⁴, Ahmed Elzanaty⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND, USA; Department of Hospital Medicine, CHI St. Alexius Health, Bismarck, ND, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.
³ Tanta University, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta, Egypt; Department of Internal Medicine, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Lincoln Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.

PMID: 35397992
DOI: 10.1016/j.orcp.2022.03.004

Abstract

Morbid obesity (MO) is a national health problem. We sought to study the prevalence and contemporary trends of MO in hospitalized young adults. Nationwide Readmission Database (NRD) for the years 2016-2019 was queried for young adult MO admissions (aged 18-35 years). A total of 750,972 (7.1%) MO admissions were analyzed. There was a trend of increasing MO admissions from 6.5% in 2016 to 7.7% in 2019 (P_trend <0.001). MO was independently associated with an increase in mean costs by 270 million dollars per year of analysis. Authors suggest developing national programs targeting MO in young adults.

Keywords: Hospitalizations; Morbid obesity; Trends; Young.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Databases, Factual
Hospitalization
Humans
Obesity, Morbid* / complications
Obesity, Morbid* / epidemiology
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Young Adult