Workout, stay fit, and die for the effort

[MountainHawk]

Slender people are more likely to die after surgery than those who are overweight, a new study finds.

People with a body mass index (BMI) of 23 or less were 40 percent more likely to die within a month of a surgical procedure, compared with people whose BMI was between 26 and 29.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/1...#ixzz1eRVGnanA

Ha!

[Pseudolus]

The results held even after the researchers took into account the condition the patient had that required surgery, and the risk of death associated with that surgery.

My first thought was "did they control for the different mix of kinds of surgery the fatties and skinnies had?", and it seems that they did.

[Pseudolus]

Other things I would wonder about:

How low, BMI-wise, does the "skinny" group go? Are the medially-underweight being lumped in with those in the "normal" range?

Possibility of a correlation issue - underlying factor is "being really, really, extra sick", which might separately cause both low weight and greater post-surgery death rates.

[matamagato]

slender <> healthy

[bloodninja]

Originally Posted by Pseudolus

Other things I would wonder about:

How low, BMI-wise, does the "skinny" group go? Are the medially-underweight being lumped in with those in the "normal" range?

Possibility of a correlation issue - underlying factor is "being really, really, extra sick", which might separately cause both low weight and greater post-surgery death rates.

The people that do studies should hire an actuary to think of stuff like this.

[td25er]

BMI is a worthless measurement. Archaic.

[SamTheEagle]

My guess is fatties are drawing on their fat stores while recouping.

[Nee-2-No-Bases]

My guess is that the skinny people are dying more often from the strain of having sex with the nurses. The nurses don't want to have sex with the fat ones.

[snoo]

Dang it!!!

[Stan]

I don't even need to look at the study to know that these researchers are full of s***.