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The difference in COVID-19 risk from having a high BMI was most pronounced in people aged under 40, or who were black. [63] A study from Mexico found that obesity alone was responsible for a 2.7 times increased risk of death from COVID-19, while comorbidities with diabetes, immunosuppression or high blood pressure increased the risk further. [64]
For the first time in over a decade, obesity rates in the United States may finally be heading in the right direction and new weight loss drugs like semaglutide could be part of the reason why. A ...
The officially reported deaths from COVID-19 pandemic in the worldwide has almost reached 6 million people. But according to the IHME, this analysis that the institute find the estimated number of excess deaths due to COVID-19 pandemic, started from Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Friday, December 31, 2021, has reaching 18.3 million people with nearly three times higher over that period.
In a small study of 26 decedents, [better source needed] the pandemized COVID-19 and infection-related disease were "major contributors" to patients' death. [12] Such deaths are sometimes evaluated via excess deaths per capita – the COVID-19 pandemic deaths between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, are estimated to be ~18.2 million ...
Prevalence of obesity in the adult population, top countries (2016), the United States has the tenth highest rate in the world. The CDC defines an adult (a person aged 20 years or greater) with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater as obese and an adult with a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9 as overweight. [4] Obesity in adults is divided into three ...
A recent study says COVID-19 seems to attack fat tissue directly. "What that means is that there's another reservoir or another place for the virus to hide and to infect and to kind of propagate ...
Some 97% of those killed by COVID-19 in Louisiana had a preexisting condition, according to the state health department. ... Diabetes was seen in 40% of the deaths, obesity in 25%, chronic kidney ...
Of the additional 1.9 billion people projected between 2020 and 2050, 1.2 billion will be added in Africa, 0.7 billion in Asia and zero in the rest of the world. Africa's share of global population is projected to grow from 17% in 2020 to 25% in 2050 and 38% by 2100, while the share of Asia will fall from 60% in 2020 to 55% in 2050 and 45% in 2100.