Skinny patients far more likely die after common heart treatments
Skinny patients are far more likely to die after common heart treatments than those who are overweight, a major study suggests.
Research on more than 1 million adults found those who were underweight were five times as likely as obese patients to die after a routine cardiac procedure.
Obese patients fared even better than those of normal weight, the study found, in a phenomenon dubbed “the obesity paradox”.