Sentences with phrase «obese patients spend»

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«Obese patients who survive their sepsis hospitalization use more health care resources and require more Medicare spending — but this apparent increase in resource use is a result of living longer, not increased use per day alive,» says senior author Theodore Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Health System.

Zelman, aware of the animal data, spent the next few years tracking down twenty other obese, non-alcoholic patients with evidence of liver disease.