The Impact of Body Mass Index in Patients with Severe Burn Injury

This study evaluated the association of body mass index (BMI) with mortality, length stay in intensive care unit (ICU), and hospital major burn patients. It was a retrospective cohort that originally conducted from January 2017 to 2020 used data patients admitted for burns at university hospital. The were divided into groups purposes comparing relevant variables according their BMI. We 288 patients: 52.8% classified as eutrophic, 33.7% overweight, 13.5% obese. median ICU 11 days all patients, 9 eutrophic 13 overweight 16 obese (p = 0.004). In multivariate analysis, age (HR 1.026; p < 0.001), total surface area 1.047; presence inhalation injury 1.658; 0.026) associated mortality. Obesity not higher mortality this sample longer among Age, burned surface, determinants death these