Obesity paradox in associations between body mass index and diabetes-related hospitalization and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes: Retrospective cohort studies

Abstract

AIM: Diabetes is a primary cause of hospitalization and in-hospital mortality. However, studies exploring the relationships between body mass index (BMI) and hospitalization-related and mortality-related outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes are lacking. METHODS: Our data were obtained from two independent retrospective cohort studies, namely, the Taiwan Diabetes Study (Taiwan DS), providing hospitalization outcome measures, and the Taichung Diabetes Study (Taichung DS) that can be linked with the National Death Registry dataset. BMI and hospitalization, in-hospital mortality, and all-cause and cause-specific death events were analyzed by Cox proportional hazard regression model. RESULTS..