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. 2023 Feb 2;20(3):2692.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032692.

Body Mass Index and Late Adverse Outcomes after a Carotid Endarterectomy

Danka Vukašinović  1 , Miloš Maksimović  1 , Slobodan Tanasković  2   3 , Jelena M Marinković  4 , Đorđe Radak  2   3 , Jadranka Maksimović  5 , Isidora Vujčić  5 , Nebojša Prijović  6 , Hristina Vlajinac  5
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Body Mass Index and Late Adverse Outcomes after a Carotid Endarterectomy

Danka Vukašinović et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

A cohort study was conducted to examine the association of an increased body mass index (BMI) with late adverse outcomes after a carotid endarterectomy (CEA). It comprised 1597 CEAs, performed in 1533 patients at the Vascular Surgery Clinic in Belgrade, from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2017. The follow-up lasted four years after CEA. Data for late myocardial infarction and stroke were available for 1223 CEAs, data for death for 1305 CEAs, and data for restenosis for 1162 CEAs. Logistic and Cox regressions were used in the analysis. The CEAs in patients who were overweight and obese were separately compared with the CEAs in patients with a normal weight. Out of 1223 CEAs, 413 (33.8%) were performed in patients with a normal weight, 583 (47.7%) in patients who were overweight, and 220 (18.0%) in patients who were obese. According to the logistic regression analysis, the compared groups did not significantly differ in the frequency of myocardial infarction, stroke, and death, as late major adverse outcomes (MAOs), or in the frequency of restenosis. According to the Cox and logistic regression analyses, BMI was neither a predictor for late MAOs, analyzed separately or all together, nor for restenosis. In conclusion, being overweight and being obese were not related to the occurrence of late adverse outcomes after a carotid endarterectomy.

Keywords: body mass index; carotid endarterectomy; late outcomes; obesity; overweight.

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