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Is BMI associated with post‐operative complication risk among patients undergoing major abdominal surgery for cancer? A systematic review
Author(s) -
Hughes Tasha M.,
Shah Kejal,
Noria Sabrena,
Pawlik Timothy
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.24999
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , cancer , lymph node , complication , surgery , body mass index , general surgery
We systematically reviewed 118 studies comparing peri‐operative outcomes among obese and non‐obese patients. Obesity was associated with longer operative time in 60% of available studies. Just 35.8% of studies that evaluated overall morbidity identified high morbidity in obese patients. Lymph node yield or surgical margin status, was only affected by obesity in 19.6% of studies. In this review obesity was frequently found to have no effect on peri‐operative and oncologic outcomes.