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. 2001 Apr;167(4):297-8.
doi: 10.1080/110241501300091525.

Lack of evidence that obesity is a cause of pilonidal sinus disease

A Cubukçu  1 , S Carkman, N N Gönüllü, A Alponat, B Kayabaşi, E Eyüboğlu
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Lack of evidence that obesity is a cause of pilonidal sinus disease

A Cubukçu et al. Eur J Surg. 2001 Apr.

Abstract

Objective: To find out whether pilonidal sinus is more common among obese people.

Design: Retrospective study from hospital records.

Setting: Two university hospitals, Turkey.

Subjects: 419 patients who were operated on for pilonidal sinus disease; and 213 age and sex matched patients with benign diseases other than pilonidal sinus disease and who were not morbidly obese acted as controls.

Main outcome measures: Comparison of body mass index (BMI) in the two groups.

Results: Patients with BMI of 25-30 were classified as overweight (61/419, 15% compared with 28/213, 13%), and those with BMI of 30 or more as obese (7/419 compared with 4/213, 2% in each group). Mean (SD) BMI of patients with pilonidal sinus disease was 26.0 (3.9) compared with 25.6 (3.9) in the control group (p = 0.4).

Conclusion: Obesity alone is not an important factor in the aetiology of pilonidal sinus disease.

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