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Does body mass index impact 5-year mortality and MACCE in ethnic Chinese patients undergoing primary CABG?
Does body mass index impact 5-year mortality and MACCE in ethnic Chinese patients undergoing primary CABG?
In an ethnic Chinese population undergoing primary CABG, BMI was not significantly associated with 5-year mortality or MACCE, whereas traditional risk factors like age, hypertension, and heart failure were predictive of adverse outcomes.
BMI not linked to 5-year mortality or MACCE after CABG in Chinese patients; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change risk stratification.
In this large-scale study with long term follow-up after primary CABG in an exclusively ethnic Chinese population, we found that different BMI groups were not significantly associated with 5-years mortality and MACCE, however, old age, smoking, hypertension, myocardial infarction and heart failure were the risk factors of post-operative mortality, and old age, hypertension and heart failure increased the rate of MACCE.
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