January 1, 2007Open Access

Impact of Body Mass Index on In-Hospital Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction

Structured PICO

Does Body Mass Index impact in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing primary PCI for ST segment elevation acute myocardial infarction?

Population

Patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (AMI)

Intervention

Higher Body Mass Index (BMI) / Obesity

Comparator

Lower BMI / Non-obese patients

Outcome

In-hospital mortalityhard clinical

The observed 'obesity paradox' in STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI appears to be confounded by age rather than a protective effect of BMI itself on in-hospital mortality.

Abstract

BMI itself had no impact on in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing primary PCI for AMI. The phenomenon ;obesity paradox' may be explained by the fact that obese patients were younger at presentation.

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Kosuge et al. (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d570af75589c71d767de4d https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.72.521

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