Researchers from Sweden showed that obesity in people with coronavirus infection is associated with a high risk of death and long stay in the intensive care unit. The article of scientists is published in the magazine Plos One.
Researchers from Gothenburg, Lincoping and Erebrous Universities analyzed data on 1649 patients in resuscitation offices throughout Sweden. They arrived there during the first wave of a pandemic – from March 6 to August 30, 2020.
In most of these patients, a high BMI was detected – 78.3 percent had an overweight body or obesity. People with CMTs are 35 kilograms per square meter and more than twice as many times died or were in resuscitation for a long time. This dependence was maintained even after the researchers took into account such factors as the severity of COVID-19 when entering the department and the presence of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
According to scientists, obesity is an independent risk factor for the risk of severe outcome in patients with COVID-19 in resuscitation. “The condition of people with obesity when they are hospitalized with COVID-19 should be more carefully tracked,” the authors emphasize in their article.
Earlier it was shown that the high BMI is the risk factor of COVID-19.