Overweight or obesity are not risk factors for central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections in patients with hematological malignancies

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 Dec;43(12):1953-1955. doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.491. Epub 2021 Dec 20.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Catheter-Related Infections* / etiology
  • Catheterization, Central Venous* / adverse effects
  • Central Venous Catheters* / adverse effects
  • Hematologic Neoplasms* / complications
  • Humans
  • Obesity / complications
  • Obesity / epidemiology
  • Overweight / complications
  • Overweight / epidemiology
  • Sepsis* / etiology