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Obesity Elevated Morbidity, Not Mortality After CABG

by MITCHEL L. ZOLER — last modified Aug 31, 2008

TORONTO — Obesity was linked to an increased risk for postsurgical complications in a study of more than 11,000 patients who underwent coronary bypass surgery. But in this series, obesity did not result in a significantly increased risk for postsurgical mortality, Dr. Mahboob Alam said at the 14th World Congress on Heart Disease.

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