Body mass index not linked to post-surgical complications, survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma, study suggests
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 10:31
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have found – contrary to previous studies linking inferior outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies to higher body mass index (BMI) – that in their study of BMI and negative outcomes, there was no such link. They concluded that BMI was not associated with either surgical complications or esophageal cancer patient survival.