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Obesity is not an independent threat to women, according to a new study, because their fats are distributed differently.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
Coronavirus has been an unpredictable enemy from the start, triggering silent or slightly noticeable infections in some individuals, while in others it triggers a cascade of headaches that overflow the picture and lead to death.
Why some patients are going through the disease and others have it is a question that has haunted doctors.
Older age and chronic fitness disorders, such as high blood pressure and central disease, are known to increase the threat of a severe Covid-19.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also lists excessive obesity as one of the main threats.
But is excess weight the culprit in itself or all the physical condition that accompanies obesity, such as metabolic disorders and breathing?
A new study says obesity itself is to blame.Research by thousands of patients treated with a Southern California health care formula recognized that excessive obesity is an independent death threat in Covid-19 patients, most surprisingly, in younger adults and with an average age of 60 years or younger, and especially in men.
Among women with the disease, body mass index, a measure of body fat based on height and weight, does not appear to be independently related to a higher threat of death at any age, the authors said, perhaps because women have a different weight than women, men, who tend to have more visceral and abdominal fats.The study was published Wednesday in Annals of Internal Medicine.
“Body mass index is a very significant and independent death threat in others diagnosed with Covid-19,” said Sara Tartof, the study’s first, researcher at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California.
But “the effect is not uniform across the population,” he added.”It’s not really seen in the elderly and we haven’t seen it as a significant threat to women of any age.”
Obesity and coronavirus are a mixture for several reasons.
Obesity is the cause of limited breathing, making it difficult for pneumonia and other respiratory infections.Fat is biologically active and a source of pro-inflammatory chemicals, resulting in a state of chronic inflammation in the body even before Covid-19 is established.adjustments and abnormalities, even in the absence of diabetes.
The study is not the first to identify obesity as guilty of Covid-19 deaths in other young people.While early reports from China and Italy did not focus on obesity as an independent threat factor, doctors in other parts of the world, where obesity is more prevalent, temporarily noticed that other younger people who have become very sick were obese.
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