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Markedly obese CoVid patients are nearly 3 times more likely than those with normal body masses to require ICU admission, go on a ventilator, or die. An international collaborative team just published these results from their meta-analysis of 335,192 patients treated over the past 11 months.
The investigators suggest 3 explanations for this effect. First of all, excess body weight negatively alters a patient’s respiratory mechanics exacerbating the impact of viral lung damage. Secondly, the additional body fat may serve as a CoVid reservoir as it does for other common human viruses. Finally, obesity may drive underlying low-grade inflammation and immune suppression.
The severely obese must avoid contracting CoVid at all costs.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.27.20239616v1.full.pdf
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