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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between body mass index (BMI) and the
functional progress of patients with stroke, admitted to a rehabilitation
hospital. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study. SETTING: A freestanding
university rehabilitation hospital stroke unit. PARTICIPANTS: All patients
(N=819) admitted to the stroke unit of a rehabilitation hospital during the
study. INTERVENTIONS: Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary study
outcome measure was the FIM efficiency of patients by BMI category. RESULTS: For
the 819 patients admitted during the observation period, BMI was compared with
FIM score changes per day (FIM efficiency). After adjusting for age and sex, the
FIM efficiency differed by BMI. The underweight group had the lowest FIM
efficiency, followed by the obese and normal-weight subgroups. The overweight
group had the highest FIM efficiency (P=.05) when compared with the obese
subgroup. CONCLUSIONS: Among patients admitted to an acute rehabilitation
hospital for stroke rehabilitation, overweight patients had better functional
progress than did patients in the other weight categories.
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