Obesity paradox in associations between body mass index and diabetes-related hospitalization and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes: Retrospective cohort studies - 14/11/19
Abstract |
Aim |
Diabetes is a primary cause of hospitalization and in-hospital mortality. However, studies exploring the relationships between body mass index (BMI) and hospitalization-related and mortality-related outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes are lacking.
Methods |
Our data were obtained from two independent retrospective cohort studies, namely, the Taiwan Diabetes Study (Taiwan DS), providing hospitalization outcome measures, and the Taichung Diabetes Study (Taichung DS) that can be linked with the National Death Registry dataset. BMI and hospitalization, in-hospital mortality, and all-cause and cause-specific death events were analyzed by Cox proportional hazard regression model.
Results |
A total of 3,541, 38,779, and 10,399 patients died during hospitalization, hospitalized for all-cause and diabetes-related events, respectively, in the Taiwan DS cohort. Moreover, 685 deaths were identified in the Taichung DS cohort. Compared with patients with increasing-but-acceptable-risk obesity, multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) of in-hospital mortality, all-cause hospitalization, hospitalization due to diabetes, hypoglycaemia, and renal failure for patients who were underweight were 2.09 (95% confidence interval 1.73, 2.51), 1.39 (1.28, 1.50), 1.69 (1.49, 1.90), 1.87 (1.34, 2.61), and 1.55 (1.26, 1.91). Adjusted HRs of all-cause mortality and non-expanded CVD-related mortality in patients with underweight were 2.02 (1.28, 3.21), and 2.27 (1.28, 4.03).
Conclusions |
The BMI associated with the best survival and less hospitalization was the higher-high-risk obesity (≥ 27.5 kg/m2) category. We observed obesity paradox for mortality outcomes, which should be addressed by further research, particularly on whether randomized controlled trials of adopting a healthy lifestyle for patients with obesity can improve type 2 diabetes patients’ survival.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Body mass index, Hospitalization, Mortality, Type 2 diabetes
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Vol 45 - N° 6
P. 564-572 - décembre 2019 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.