Is There an Obesity Paradox in the Short Bowel Syndrome?: A Review
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https://doi.org/10.70422/09qzrn94Keywords:
Surgery, Short Bowel Syndrome, Short Gut Syndrome, Intestinal Failure, Obesity, Obesity ParadoxAbstract
Obesity complicates clinical outcomes of a variety of medical conditions, operative procedures, and overall health. The obesity paradox refers to the counterintuitive finding of a protective effect of obesity for a number of clinical conditions. This has been observed not only for specific complications, but for overall mortality. We have speculated there may be an obesity paradox in the short bowel syndrome (SBS), as observed in human adults and experimental murine models. A review of the existing literature in this field is presented here.
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