Operative Risk for Major Lung Resection Increases at Extremes of Body Mass Index Trevor Williams, MD, MPH, Brian C. Gulack, MD, Sunghee Kim, PhD, Felix G. Fernandez, MD, MS, Mark K. Ferguson, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 103, Issue 1, Pages 296-302 (January 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.057 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Risk of pulmonary complications stratified by body mass index (BMI) category. The size of each circle represents the number of patients (N) and the place of each circle indicates the mean in that group. Vertical bars indicate interquartile range (25th and 75th percentiles). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 296-302DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.057) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions