COVID-19 study: Obesity ups risk of severe disease but not death
An Australian-led team of researchers finds that high BMI and diabetes are independent, but not additive, risk factors
Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 who are overweight, obese or have diabetes have an increased risk of needing mechanical ventilation but no greater risk of mortality, a study shows.
An Australian-led international group of researchers, the BMI-COVID consortium, has also shown that patients with diabetes who are overweight or obese do not appear to have an additive risk.
