Obesity increases the risk of death from new coronavirus by 37 percent. Reported by the Daily Mail, citing a study of data from hospitals of the National health service of England.
The study based on the case histories of 17 thousand patients with COVID-19, showed that overall a third of Britons hospitalized with the virus die.
Mortality from COVID-19, which is accompanied by obesity, second only to the combination of the coronavirus with dementia (39 per cent). For example, obesity in the coronavirus was more dangerous than heart disease (31%).
While heart disease was the most common among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 patients.
More than half (53%) patients from the study had at least one associated coronavirus pathology.
Almost a third (29 percent) had heart disease, 19 percent have diabetes, as many suffered from lung disease, 15 per cent kidney disease, 14 percent with asthma.
Less than ten percent were hospitalized smokers.
As reported by “Rambler” previously, scientists from new York medical school Grossman warned that obesity may be more dangerous for patients with coronavirus than cancer and many other diseases.
The researchers analyzed data on patients with coronavirus treated in new York for the period from 1 March to 2 April. The researchers came to the conclusion that more just to get to the hospital are at risk (in descending order of risk): patients over 75 years, people aged 65 to 74 years, patients with body mass index more than forty (norm is a BMI from 18.5 to 24.99), and men with heart failure.
