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Data
Source: University of Chicago Hospitals |
By
the Numbers
Operative details
Emergency room visits to the University
Hospitals during the 2001–02 academic year: 76,500
Liver transplants: 35
Burn-unit patients: 391
Heart transplants in 2002: 28
Colonoscopies: 4,068
Tonsillectomies (approximate): 300
Births: 3,045
Premature infants with extremely low
birth weight (less than two pounds) admitted annually to
the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): 120
Portion of all such U.S. preemies cared
for at the NICU: 0.5%
Weight-loss surgeries performed in 2002:
187
Average Body Mass Index (BMI) of weight-loss
surgery patients: 55
“Normal” BMI: 18–24.9
“Morbidly obese” BMI:
40+
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