Title: Is obesity a protection in penetrating trauma?<br/>Author: Robert Flint<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/2561/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p> <span style="font-size:16px;">This meta-analyisis looked at whether obesity was a protective factor for penetrating trauma (the armour phenomenon). The authors concluded that insteaed of being protective, obesity added to morbidity and mortality.</span></p> <p> <span style="font-size:14px;">"<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: "system-ui", -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">Obese patients that sustained stab injuries underwent more nontherapeutic operations. Obese patients that sustained gunshot injuries had longer intensive care and total hospital length of stay. Obese patients suffered more respiratory complications and were at an increased risk of death during their admission."</span></span></p> <p> <font color="#212121" face="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Further evidence that obesity is a major health concern in both medical and trauma pateints. </span></font></p> <fieldset><legend>References</legend>
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