Monday, April 20, 2020

Obesity can be a great risk for Covid patients

Obesity can be a great risk for Covid patients
  1. We are aware that senior citizens should be careful in protecting themselves from this infection.
  2. Some more research studies are revealing the Obesity can be a great risk for Covid patients.
The study coming from the countries US, France and China is as follows “Emerging research into severe coronavirus cases has found that obesity appears to pose a much greater risk than expected. People with obesity often have other medical problems as well, but new studies - in the US, France and China - point to obesity itself as the second most significant complicating factor in severe corona virus cases, after age. Young adults with obesity appear to be at particular risk, even if they have no other health issues.”

The reason can be that obese people can be having respiratory diseases.

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