Surgical complications twelve times more likely in obese patients

Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- Obese patients are nearly 12 times more likely to suffer a complication following elective plastic surgery than their normal-weight counterparts, according to new research by Johns Hopkins scientists.

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