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NBC News: Thin Patients Have Higher Risk of Dying After Surgery

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NBC News carried HealthDay’s report on an Archives of Surgery study of about 190,000 surgical patients, which found that underweight patients had a higher risk of dying within 30 days of surgery.

Dr. Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, then chief of bariatric surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, explained that many of these patients are malnourished from cancer or other illness and lack the reserves to tolerate major surgery.

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