Introduction
Materials and methods
Search strategy
Quality of studies
Statistical analyses
Results
First author | Country | Year | SAH cases | Mean age | Sex (% male) | Follow-up time | Obesity categories |
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Cohort studies with preictal follow-up | |||||||
Sandvei | Norway | 2011 | 214 | 47.1 | 58.6 | Before SAH: 16 years* After SAH: 6 months | BMI < 18.5 BMI 18.5–24.9 BMI 25–29.9 BMI ≥ 30 |
Yamada | Japan | 2003 | 244 | 63.1 | 36.1 | Before SAH: 9.9 years* After SAH: NR | BMI < 18.5 BMI 18.5–24.9 BMI ≥ 25 |
Lindbohm | Finland | 2017 | 543 | 61.4 | 46.2 | Before SAH: 23 years* After SAH: Before hospitalization | Continuous BMI |
Cohort studies from hospital-based registers | |||||||
Dasenbrock | USA | 2017 | 18,281 | 54.2 | 31.3 | In hospital | NO (BMI < 30) Obese (BMI = 30–40) MO (BMI > 40) |
Elliot | USA | 2017 | 224,561 | 59.4 | 40.2 | In hospital | NMO (BMI ≤ 40) MO (BMI > 40) |
Hughes | USA | 2015 | 305 | 55.8 | 35.2 | Short-term (in hospital or 30 days after discharge) Long-term (24 months) | BMI < 25 BMI 25–30 BMI ≥ 30 |
First author | Sudden-death SAHs | Obesity measurement | Obesity analysis | Short-term follow-up | Confounding control | Sufficient sample size |
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Low-quality studies | ||||||
Sandvei | + | − | + | + | − | − |
Yamada | NA | − | − | NA | + | − |
Lindbohm | + | − | − | − | + | − |
Dasenbrock | − | − | − | + | − | + |
Elliot | − | − | − | + | − | + |
Hughes | − | + | − | + | − | − |
First author | Follow-up | Analyses by sex | BMI categories (kg/m2) | Risk of mortality HR/OR (95% CI) | |
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Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | ||||
Short-term mortality | |||||
Sandvei | 3 days | – | Underweight (< 18.5) | – | – |
Normal weight (18.5–24.9) | – | Reference | |||
Overweight (25–29.9) | – | 0.6 (0.3–1.4) | |||
Obese (≥ 30) | – | 1.1 (0.4–3.1) | |||
30 days | – | Underweight (< 18.5) | – | – | |
Normal weight (18.5–24.9) | – | Reference | |||
Overweight (25–29.9) | – | 1.1 (0.6–2.0) | |||
Obese (≥ 30) | – | 0.9 (0.3–2.1) | |||
Dasenbrock | In hospital | – | Non–obese (< 30) | Reference | Reference |
Obese (30–40) | 0.84 (0.65–1.09) | 0.90 (0.69–1.18) | |||
Morbidly obese (> 40) | 0.75 (0.54–1.06) | 0.77 (0.54–1.11) | |||
Elliot | In hospital | – | Nonmorbidly obese (≤ 40) | – | Reference |
Morbidly obese (> 40) | – | 0.83 (0.74–0.92) | |||
Hughes | In hospital or 30 days after first discharge | – | Continuously | 0.91 (0.84–0.98) | 0.90 (0.82–0.99) |
Long-term mortality | |||||
Sandvei | 6 months | Underweight (< 18.5) | – | 1.6 (0.1–28.4) | |
Normal weight (18.5–24.9) | – | Reference | |||
Overweight (25–29.9) | – | 1.0 (0.5–1.9) | |||
Obese (≥ 30) | – | 1.0 (0.4–2.4) | |||
Hughes | > 24 months | – | Continuously | 0.92 (0.86–0.97) | 0.92 (0.85–0.98) |
No reported follow-up | |||||
Yamada | NR | Both | Low (< 18.5) | 1.63 (1.06–2.50) | 1.82 (0.98–3.38) |
Moderate (≥ 18.5 and < 25.0) | Reference | Reference | |||
High (≥ 25.0) | 1.02 (0.73–1.43) | – | |||
Men | Low (< 18.5) | 1.85 (0.91–3.75) | 2.72 (1.03–7.23) | ||
Moderate (≥ 18.5 and < 25.0) | Reference | Reference | |||
High (≥ 25.0) | 0.73 (0.38–1.38) | – | |||
Women | Low (< 18.5) | 1.52 (0.89–2.60) | 1.44 (0.64–3.21) | ||
Moderate (≥ 18.5 and < 25.0) | Reference | Reference | |||
High (≥ 25.0) | 1.16 (0.79–1.73) | – | |||
Lindbohm | Before hospitalization | – | Continuously | – | 0.86 (0.68–1.09) |