What Is the Skinny on Obesity During Sepsis?

What Is the Skinny on Obesity During Sepsis? The latter seemed to be supported by observations linking certain diets to higher sepsis risk ([3]), and morbid obesity to increased sepsis mortality ([4], [5]). Another limitation was the reliance solely on sepsis mortality, without knowing the sepsis denominator within the obese and nonobese cohorts. Regardless of the mechanisms explaining the "obesity sepsis paradox", the large, well-designed retrospective study by Pepper et al ([9]) provides the strongest evidence to date linking lower sepsis mortality to obesity. [Extracted from the article]