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Review
. 2019 Aug 2;14(1):12-15.
doi: 10.1002/cld.807. eCollection 2019 Jul.

Obesity and Liver Decompensation

Joseph C Ahn  1 , Vinay Sundaram  2
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Review

Obesity and Liver Decompensation

Joseph C Ahn et al. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Conceptual diagram of the pretransplant, peritransplant, and posttransplant challenges in the obese patient with liver transplant.
Figure 2
Figure 2
(A) Proportion of patients experiencing first clinical decompensation according to BMI group. Obesity was associated with a significantly higher proportion of clinical decompensation in a median follow‐up of 59 months. (B) Probability of first clinical decompensation of cirrhosis according to BMI group. As shown, obese patients had the highest probability of decompensation, and patients with a normal BMI had the lowest probability of decompensation, with overweight patients having an intermediate probability. Differences among groups were statistically significant (log‐rank 7.60; P = 0.022).
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