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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 5/2018

01-05-2018 | Letter

Obesity was associated with worse neurological outcome among Japanese patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Authors: Makoto Aoki, Shuichi Hagiwara, Kiyohiro Oshima, Masaru Suzuki, Atsushi Sakurai, Yoshio Tahara, Ken Nagao, Naohiro Yonemoto, Arino Yaguchi, Naoto Morimura, SOS-KANTO 2012 Study Group

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 5/2018

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Title
Obesity was associated with worse neurological outcome among Japanese patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Authors
Makoto Aoki
Shuichi Hagiwara
Kiyohiro Oshima
Masaru Suzuki
Atsushi Sakurai
Yoshio Tahara
Ken Nagao
Naohiro Yonemoto
Arino Yaguchi
Naoto Morimura
SOS-KANTO 2012 Study Group
Publication date
01-05-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 5/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-5042-3

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