Table 1.

Tabulation of mortality of CABG by BMI groups in individual series.

First author	Number of patients	Mortality
		Overnourished				Well nourished	Undernourished
		Morbidly (Severely) obese	Moderately obese	Mildly obese	Overweight	Normal weight	Underweight
Prasad	500	0.80%				0.80%	n/a
Tolpin	10,863	3.30%			3.60%		n/a
Kuduvalli	4,713	3.10%		2.70%	2.80%
Pan	9,862	3.90%	3.50%	3.20%	2.90%	4.70%	n/a
Habib	4,557	1.30%		2.50%	1.7%		n/a
Birkmeyer	11,101	3.10%		3.30%	3.30%
Engel	10,590	1%	2%		2%		7%
Brandt	500	4%			3.60%
Kim	6,728	1%			2%	2%
Lindhout	1,130	1%			3.40%
Syrakas	13,139	2%			2.80%
Schwann	3,560	3,2%	2.60%	2.40%	2.20%	2.20%	5.30%
Prabhakar	559,004	3.10%	2.50%	2.60%
Edwards	344,913	3.60%	2.72%
Clough	27,239	3.10%		2.47%	3.10%
Perrotta	4,749	2.70%		2.00%	1.70%		6.20%
Reeves	4,372	0.60%		0.80%	0.80%	0.90%	6.70%
Shirzad	10,191	0.80%			0.70%	0.90%	3%
Total	1,027,711

n/a: no available data