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Effectiveness of the corona vaccination: If you exceed this weight, you risk poorer vaccination protection

2021-04-12T11:50:15.439Z


Those who are very overweight develop a severe corona course more often than people of normal weight. Disadvantages can also arise with regard to vaccination protection.


Those who are very overweight develop a severe corona course more often than people of normal weight.

Disadvantages can also arise with regard to vaccination protection.

Italian researchers have looked at the question of what influence factors such as age, gender and body weight have on the effectiveness of corona vaccinations.

To do this, they took

blood

from 248 health care workers on the seventh day

after the second Biontech vaccine dose and determined the titers

.

Titer is the measure of the amount of antibodies that can be detected in the blood after vaccination.

There were considerable differences depending on age, gender and body weight.

Those study participants who were under 37 years of age got away best

.

According to the Ärzteblatt, the Italian researchers found the highest titer values ​​here at 453.5 AU / ml.

In the 37- to 47-year-olds the titer fell to 330.9 AU / ml, at the age of 47 to 56 years it was 239.8 AU / ml and at the age of 56 years it was only 182.4 AU / ml, so the results of the study.

Male, old and overweight: the worst combination in terms of corona vaccinations

But not only age, but also gender and body weight are essential factors influencing the effectiveness of the corona vaccination.

After vaccination, women developed more antibodies

against coronaviruses than men: in women, the titer value was 338.5 AU / ml, in men it was 212.6 AU / ml.

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Corona patients who are very overweight have to be treated in intensive care units more often than normal-weight patients.

© Peter Byrne / dpa

According to the Italian researchers led by Gennaro Ciliberto from the IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute in Rome, weight can also reduce vaccination protection immensely.

People with a BMI of over 30 had a titer of 167.0 AU / ml

.

For comparison: people of normal weight (BMI 18.5 to 24.9) achieved antibody concentrations of 325.8 AU / ml after vaccination.

People with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 achieved values ​​of 222.4 AU / ml.

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This weight makes you least susceptible to deadly corona courses.

Third Corona Vaccine Dose for Severely Overweight People?

According to the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), the reasons why vaccinations work worse in obese people have not yet been clearly clarified.

It is known, however, that

obesity triggers chronic inflammatory reactions in the organism

, which is why the immune system reacts weaker to many infections.

This could be a possible reason for a weaker immune response to vaccination.

The researchers of the Italian study suggest that

obese people

may be given an additional dose or a larger amount of vaccine

if further larger studies confirm that the conventional two doses of vaccine do not lead to the production of the desired

amount of

antibodies in the body.

(jg)

To the study

More sources: https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/121753/

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