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The CDC warns that even a slight excess of a few pounds increases the risk of developing severe Covid-19 disease, and it could not have come at a worse timing. "Being overweight is an ongoing insult to the immune system"


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The 5 kg you put on in the closure endangers you in Corona

The CDC warns that even a slight excess of a few pounds increases the risk of developing severe Covid-19 disease, and it could not have come at a worse timing.

"Being overweight is an ongoing insult to the immune system"

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Obesity is a known risk factor for complications and severe morbidity in Corona and was marked as such even in the earliest stages of the epidemic, along with old age and several other background diseases.

However, public health experts in the United States are now warning the public that even being overweight is a risk factor for severe Covid-19 disease.



The warning, released this week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), actually puts a very large segment of the population at risk - about 40 percent of the U.S. population is defined as obese, but another 32 percent is defined as overweight. Add the numbers These and the result is that close to three-quarters of the American adult population are at risk. The US is one of the fattest nations in the world with high population rates classified as overweight or obese, but many Western countries suffer from a similar trend.

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"It's important to make sure the general public and everyone else is aware of the potential for risk," said Dr. Brock Blai, a physician at CDC. "The message to the public should be to encourage people to strive to make healthy changes on a daily basis, such as choosing a healthy diet, exercise and adherence. About enough hours of sleep, "she added in an interview with the New York Times.

The pounds you put on in quarantine can also increase your risk of serious illness.

An overweight woman wearing a denim button (illustration: ShutterStock)

Obesity and overweight are defined using a body mass index (or BMI) that weights relative values ​​of height and weight.

People with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 are defined as having a normal weight, being overweight is defined as a BMI that is in the range of 25 to 29 while a BMI of more than 30 will already bring you to obesity districts.



"The new warning greatly expands the risk area and engenders a large portion of the U.S. population," said Dr. Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in response to a CDC publication.

Dr. Popkin published a scientific review of 75 studies at the end of last August, in which he found that people with obesity are twice as likely to be hospitalized due to illness in Corona, compared to overweight or overweight people. Times 2.



However, at the time Dr. Popkin and his research colleagues were also unable to isolate the status of overweight as a risk factor, mainly because there were only a few studies that addressed this.

Three-quarters of the U.S. population is at risk. Obesity (illustration: shutterstock)

As mentioned, doctors have already noticed in the very early stages of the epidemic that being overweight increases the risk of having corona patients.

However, since obesity is often accompanied by additional medical problems, it took some time for researchers to figure out whether the excess fat itself is to blame for the increased risk.



Oedipus tissue - which is the fat that the body stores - is active biological tissue that causes changes and metabolic disorders.

It creates a chronic inflammatory condition in the body, even without the presence of infection.

In addition, abdominal obesity (more common in cattle in men) can press on the diaphragm, lungs and chest in a way that restricts respiratory movements and makes it difficult for the body to clear inflammation or other infections from the lungs.

High chance of artificial respiration

In its recent warning about being overweight and corona, the CDC relied on a small handful of studies that successfully identified the cause of obesity and the cause of obesity, including one study of severe Covid-19 risk factors in the UK and another analysis of 500 treated corona cases. At Down State University Hospital in Brooklyn in March-April 2020.



43 percent of these patients were obese, 30 percent were overweight and 27 percent were normal weight.

After weighing other risk factors such as age, diabetes and the like, the researchers found that patients who were obese or overweight were at increased risk of needing artificial respiration and had a higher mortality rate.

The results of this study were published in the July issue of the International Journal of Obesity.

The risk associated with being overweight was even higher than that resulting from obesity.

Corona ward in Italian hospital (Photo: Reuters)

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Surprisingly, the risk associated with being overweight was even higher than that resulting from obesity.

Overweight patients were 40 percent more likely to die from the disease, compared to normal-weight patients, while the mortality risk of obese patients was only 30 percent higher than that of normal-weight overweight patients.



The findings clearly indicate an increased risk of serious illness among anyone with a BMI higher than 25, said researchers led by Dr. Muhammad Rami Nakshbandi, a lecturer in infectious diseases at Down State University School of Health Sciences in Brooklyn. They further noted that obesity has increased The risk of mortality for men only, and not for women.

Even exercise can not erase the damage done to the immune system from persistent inflammation.

Exercising woman (illustration: shutterstock)

The British study was more extensive and examined lifestyle risk factors among 387,109 men and women - of which the researchers isolated and focused on 760 who also contracted corona.

Compared to normal-weight overweight participants who were infected with Covid-19 and were overweight, they were 30 percent more likely to be hospitalized due to their illness.

Patients with obesity were approximately 2 times more likely to be hospitalized than normal-weight patients.

"Continued insult to the immune system"

Exercise may reduce the risk of developing various chronic conditions associated with being overweight, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

But it will not completely eliminate the damage caused to the functioning of the immune system due to a prolonged period of increased inflammation - Dr. Popkin warned, "Being overweight is not like other diseases in terms of inflammation.

Adipose tissue is inflamed for long periods of time and as time goes on the effect on the immune system increases.

It's like a kind of ongoing insult to the immune system, "he said.

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