Editorial Comment: Impact of Obesity on Perioperative Outcomes at Robotic-assisted and Open Radical Prostatectomy: Results From the National Inpatient Sample

Abstract

Obesity is a growing public health issue worldwide and in this paper Dr. Sophie Knipper and cols. emphasized that regardless of the surgical technique, open or robotic-assisted, obese patients (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) may be predisposed to more frequent adverse perioperative outcomes (1). They included for their analyses a control-group of nonobese patients and accessed the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database from 2008 to 2015 (2), meaning 20% of United States inpatient hospitalizations. They used the