Abstract
Prior research on the relationship between obesity and postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing lower extremity vascular surgeries has shown conflicting results. There is some data to suggest that obesity (body mass index of >30 kg/m2) correlates with postoperative wound infection (POI) and hospital length of stay (LOS), but not mortality or major adverse limb event (MALE). We sought to identify the maximal body mass index cut-off point for stratifying patients by mortality risk and to investigate the relationship between obesity and mortality, MALE, hospital LOS, and postoperative wound infection in patients undergoing open lower extremity revascularization procedures.
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