• Spine · Jan 2018

    Do Obese and Extremely Obese Patients Lose Weight After Lumbar Spine Fusions? Analysis of a Cohort of 7303 Patients From the Kaiser National Spine Registry.

    • Paul T Akins, Maria Cs Inacio, Johannas A Bernbeck, Jessica Harris, Yuexin X Chen, Heather A Prentice, and Kern H Guppy.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, CA, USA.
    • Spine. 2018 Jan 1; 43 (1): 22-27.

    AbstractMINI: The outcome of interest was ≥ 5% weight change 1 year postoperative from baseline. Seven thousand three hundred three lumbar fusions in the Kaiser Permanente Spine Registry between 2009 and 2013 were analyzed. Weight loss occurred in: body mass index < 30, 11.1%; obese, BMI 30 to 39, 16.6%, odds ratio = 1.42; extremely obese, body mass index ≥40, 21.1%, odds ratio = 1.73.

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