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ArticleWorld journal of clinical cases2025

Obesity paradox in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: Have you fully considered the confounding factors?

Jin-Ke Sun, Hui Tian

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Article in World journal of clinical cases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jin-Ke SunDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250000, Shandong Province, China.
Hui TianDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng 252000, Shandong Province, China. tianhui@lchospital.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There exists a notion that there is an obesity paradox in the prognosis of community-acquired pneumonia. In other words, obese individuals with community-acquired pneumonia have a better prognosis. The study by Wang

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Body mass indexCommunity-acquired pneumoniaMortalityObesity paradoxOverweight

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PMID40144481
PMCPMC11670021

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