Researchers looked at which factors were most associated with hospitalization and critical illness in over 4,000 New York patients.
Of the patients studied, 1,999 required hospital admission and 650 needed intensive care, were placed on a ventilator, died, or were discharged to hospice care.
However, the researchers added that what was"most striking" were the importance of inflammatory markers that appear to show which patients would need critical care. This, they say, could explain the risk posed by obesity. Ian Hall, Director of the Centre for Biomolecular Sciences at the U.K.'s University of Nottingham, toldthe study provides"a valuable analysis" of patients with COVID-19, showing obesity is a"major risk factor" in hospital admission.
"Whatever the explanation, given that in the U.S. and many other countries obesity is common it is useful for planning clinical care pathways to know that obesity appears to be an important independent risk factor for hospital admission," Hall said.
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