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. 2023 Aug 30;9(9):e19556. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19556

Table 1.

Characteristics of studies included in the review.

Author Year Country Study Type Age (Mean ± SD) Follow-up years No. Of participants Confounders adjusted NOS scores
Lin et al. 2020 China Retrospective
Cohort Study
Underweight 67.02 ± 17.6 28-day 7967 age,sex, SOFA, mechanical ventilation on the first day, renal replacement therapy on the first day, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, valvular disease, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension, other neurological diseases, chronic pulmonary disease, liver disease, renal failure, AIDS, lymphoma, metastatic cancer, solid tumor, diabetes, fluid and electrolyte disorders, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and depression. 8
Normal
67.56 ± 16.88
Overweight
66.51 ± 16.21
Obese
63.71 ± 14.36
Weng et al. 2020 China Prospective
Cohort Study
50.9 (±10.3) 10 years 440,763 age, sex, study area、smoking status 7
Pepper et al. 2019 America Retrospective
Cohort Study
NA NA 55,038 patient, infection, and hospital-level factors 7
Zhou et al. 2018 China Prospective Cohort Study Survivors n = 104 90-day 178 NA 7
Non-survivors, n = 74
Wurzinger et al. 2010 Austria Retrospective cohort study Survivors
68 ± 15
NA 301 admission year, sex, age, presence of heart disease or chronic renal insufficiency, the number of pre-morbidities, origin of sepsis, and the simplified acute physiology score II 7
Non- survivors
76 ± 10
Zhang et al. 2023 China Retrospective cohort study Overweight
65.9 ± 17.0
1- year 3145 age, gender, SAPS, SOFA, diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, malignancy cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal disease, liver disease, MAP, creatinine, hemoglobin 8
Obese
62.9 ± 15.3
Tay-Lasso et al. 2022 America Retrospective
Cohort Study
BMI<30
60 (64–85)
1-year 1246 age, alcohol use, hypertension, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, injury severity score, respiratory rate, pulse rate, systolic blood pressure, intensive care unit days, Glasgow coma scale. 6
BMI≥30
54 (60–80)
Li et al. 2019 China Retrospective
Cohort Study
Overweight,67.4 1-year 5563 Gender, Age, Marriage status 8
Obese,64.2
Gaulton et al. 2014 America Retrospective
Cohort Study
Obese
60.6 (51.8–69)
28-day 1779 ICU location and administration of a vasopressor 7
Non-obese
60.9 (49.2–71.9)
Prescott et al. 2014 America Prospective
Cohort Study
Overweight
78.7 ± 8.6
1-year 1404 age, race, gender, marital status, wealth, acute organ dysfunctions, ICU use, mechanical ventilation use, diabetes, other comorbidities, baseline cognitive status, and functional limitations. 8
Obese,75.3 ± 8.1
Huttunen et al. 2007 Finland Retrospective
Cohort Study
NA 30-day 149 alcohol abuse, age (continuous variable), sex, and causative organism 7
Arabi et al. 2013 Saudi Arabia Retrospective
Cohort Study
Overweight,63.5 ± 15.9 12-year 2882 baseline characteristics and sepsis interventions 7
Obese,62.2 ± 14.6