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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2012, Article ID 287939, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/287939 Research Article Body Mass Index and Hospital Mortality in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Receiving Care in a University Hospital Mercedes Camprubi,1 Sandra Cabrera,1 Jordi Sans,1 Georgina Vidal,2 ´ 2 ´1 Teresa Salvado, and Alfredo Bardajı 1 Cardiology Service, Joan XXIII University Hospital of Tarragona IISPV, University Rovira Virgili, Calle Dr Mallafre Guash 4, ´ 43007 Tarragona, Spain 2 Education and Pathological Anatomy Units, Verge de la Cinta Hospital of Tortosa, Spain ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Alfredo Bardajı, alfredo.bardaji@urv.cat Received 27 January 2012; Revised 20 June 2012; Accepted 20 June 2012 Academic Editor: Jack A. Yanovski Copyright © 2012 Mercedes Camprubi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Although obesity is a well-established cardiovascular risk factor, some controversy has arisen with regard to its effect on hospital mortality in patients admitted for acute coronary syndrome. Methods. Clinical and anthropometric variables were analyzed in patients consecutively admitted for acute coronary syndrome to a university hospital between 2009 and 2010, and the correlation of those variables with hospital mortality was examined. Results. A total of 824 patients with a diagnos