Categorizing body mass index biases assessment of the association with post-coronary artery bypass graft mortality

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery : Official Journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Giovanni FilardoJames Edgerton

Abstract

The high prevalence of obesity makes accurately estimating the impact of anthropometric measures on cardiac surgery outcomes critical. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery risk model includes body surface area (as a continuous variable, using spline functions), but most studies apply various categorizations of body mass index (BMI)-contributing to the contradictory published findings. We assessed the association between BMI (modelled as a continuous variable without assumptions of linearity) and CABG operative mortality and examined the impact of applying previous studies' BMI modelling strategies. We identified 25 studies investigating the BMI-operative mortality association: 22 categorized BMI, 2 as a linear continuous variable,1 used spline functions. Our cohort of 12 715 consecutive patients underwent isolated CABG at 32 cardiac surgery programmes in North Texas from 1 January 2008-31 December 2012. BMI was modelled using restricted cubic spline functions in a propensity-adjusted model (controlling for Society of Thoracic Surgeons risk factors) estimating operative mortality. The analysis was repeated using each categorization identified and modelling BMI as a linear continuous variab...Continue Reading

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