Impact of body mass index for patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy

To evaluate the impact of body mass index (BMI) on short and long term results after pancreaticoduodenectomies (PD).A consecutive series of PDs performed at the Karolinska University Hospital from 2004 till 2010 were retrieved from our prospective database. The patients were divided by BMI into overweight/obese (O; BMI ≥ 25 kg/m(2)) and controls (C; BMI < 25 kg/m(2)). Demographics, peri-operative data, morbidity, mortality, pancreatic fistula...