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Obesity complicates medication dosing, diagnostic testing, skin integrity, and nutrition in hospitalized patients.
Obesity is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide and is a risk factor for cardiac disease, diabetes, and stroke. This provides a challenge for the physicians caring for this patient population in the hospital. Skin integrity, medication dosing, testing, and nutrition are all altered by obesity. We summarize some of the current data on caring for the obese inpatient. Unfortunately, few data on this unique inpatient population exist.
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Markoff et al. (2008) conducted a review in Obesity in hospitalized patients. Obesity was evaluated. Obesity in hospitalized patients alters skin integrity, medication dosing, diagnostic testing, and nutrition, though quantitative data on this population remain limited.
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