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It's things like this that really make you think; I am no sort of medical professional, but you have to wonder how many hidden costs are due to obesity, and not
by npsimons 13y ago
It's things like this that really make you think; I am no sort of medical professional, but you have to wonder how many hidden costs are due to obesity, and not just for procedures. Sure, losing weight won't cure someone's allergies or cancer, but I'd be curious to see the correlated incidence rates, and I know I stay healthier in "completely unrelated" ways when I weigh less and get regular exercise.
- lostlogin 13y agoI don't know what the literature says, but someone who is very big gets a lower quality scan, which surely correlates with greater miss rates with imaging reports (slices have larger voxel due to thicker slices, larger slice gap, lower image matrix etc). We resort to more robust imaging types which tend to have problems of their own (lower resolution usually). Then further down the track, operations are more complex and recovery slower. It's all bad.