{"id":59625,"date":"2011-12-01T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=59625"},"modified":"2011-12-01T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:00:16","slug":"underweight-people-at-greatest-risk-for-post-surgery-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/underweight-people-at-greatest-risk-for-post-surgery-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Underweight People at Greatest Risk for Post-Surgery Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When we talk about healthy eating and dieting<\/a><\/strong>, our focuses is almost entirely on people who are overweight. Obesity-related diseases account for just about 10 percent of medical costs in the United States, which comes to an estimated $147 billion each year.<\/p>\n

That said, according to recently released research, people who are underweight are 40 percent more likely to die in the first month after surgery than those who are overweight.<\/p>\n

The researchers believe that a patient\u2019s body mass index<\/a><\/strong> (BMI) can be used as a predictor for risk in recovery time after surgery. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines those who have a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 as normal weight, so anything below that range fits in the underweight category.<\/p>\n

Previous studies showed mixed results, but since the new study examined nearly 190,000 patients undergoing various surgical procedures at 183 hospitals, it\u2019s expansive enough to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

“We found patients in the lowest quintile had a 40 percent higher odds of death compared to the mid-range,” said researcher George Stukenborg of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

The researchers aren\u2019t sure why this is so, but postulate that people who were underweight were sick to begin with. Either way, they say that doctors should use BMI as a consideration when they plan surgeries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we talk about healthy eating and dieting, our focuses is almost entirely on people who are overweight. Obesity-related diseases account for just about 10 percent of medical costs in the United States, which comes to an estimated $147 billion … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[749,383,880],"class_list":["post-59625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-bmi","tag-research-studies","tag-surgery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59625"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59768,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59625\/revisions\/59768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}