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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4453589" data-attributes="member: 18222">Obesity linked to severe coronavirus disease, especially for younger patientsAnother NYU Langone study, which focused on patients under the age of 60, found that those with obesity were twice as likely to be hospitalized and were at even higher risk of requiring critical care. The association between obesity and more severe disease was not seen in patients over the age of 60.Although most of the early reports from China pointed to risk factors like Type 2 diabetes and hypertension, which are common in people with obesity, scientists in Shenzhen, China, reported in The Lancet this month that COVID-19 patients with a high body mass index were at more than double the risk of severe pneumonia than those with a lower BMI.Another study from China, which looked at outcomes among a group of 112 COVID-19 patients, reported that of the 17 patients who died, 15 were either overweight or obese.[ATTACH=full]291672[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4453589, member: 18222"] Obesity linked to severe coronavirus disease, especially for younger patients Another NYU Langone study, which focused on patients under the age of 60, found that those with obesity were twice as likely to be hospitalized and were at even higher risk of requiring critical care. The association between obesity and more severe disease was not seen in patients over the age of 60. Although most of the early reports from China pointed to risk factors like Type 2 diabetes and hypertension, which are common in people with obesity, scientists in Shenzhen, China, reported in The Lancet this month that COVID-19 patients with a high body mass index were at more than double the risk of severe pneumonia than those with a lower BMI. Another study from China, which looked at outcomes among a group of 112 COVID-19 patients, reported that of the [B]17 patients who died, 15 were either overweight or obese.[/B] [ATTACH=full]291672[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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