Body mass indicator (BMI) is one of the most common techniques to assess the general composition of body and obesity. A new study suggests an association of BMI in gastric cancer patients undergoing a gastrectomy . The increase in the number of obesity cases has been quite alarming. Body mass index (BMI) is most widely used technique to detect obesity.
Obesity is linked to several diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia and cardiovascular diseases. However, contrary to popular belief, overweight people may paradoxically have beneficial outcomes compared with normal patients. This inference has been suggested by several recent studies on critically and chronically ill patients in the cases of acute lung injury, rheumatoid arthritis and COPD. As some studies have suggested the outcomes of surgery are dependent on BMI, the scientists from South Korea conducted a study to…
