Mumbai: Four of the 10 adults with covid in the intensive care unit has obesity, according to a new European study, underlines how the body mass index plays a role in causing severe covid.
“There is a higher risk of hospitalization and prolonged death in an icus for patients with obesity, ” conclude studies by Gothenburg University, which has been published in the latest edition of the medical journal ‘Ploo’.
In Mumbai, the doctor said the proportion of obese patients in an icus It is around 30%.
“It was one of the common factors among those who were treated in my ICU,” said Dr.
Rahul Pandit, who headed the ICU at Fortis Hospital, Mulund, and was a member of the state government assignment unit in Covid.
He said obesity and diabetes were equally found in Covid ICU patients.
Dr.
Shashank Joshi, also a member of the task force, said, “In India, the most common risk factors among those who have severe covid and death are hypertension, followed by diabetes.” But, because obesity is equally important for both conditions This, this is certainly a risk factor.
“Obesity is a underlying condition in many cases.
During the first wave, one of our patients, a 35-year-old man who was obese but did not have other comorbidities who surrendered to Covid, “Dr.
Joshi.
Dr Avinash Supe, which is part of the death committee that analyzes Covid’s death for two waves, said that hypertension was found in 44% of death and diabetes among 42%.
“Overall 60-65% have comorbidity including ischemic disease, lung disease and cancer (some have double diseases or three).
Obesity as a comorbidity is in 10-15% and dominant in young patients who die,” said Dr.
Supe .
A previous study published in the registered journal ‘immunity & aging’ , immunity at cellular levels experience disruption to obese individuals.
The author of the new PLO study from Sweden, Lovisa Sjögren, said obesity increased the risk of death, and even among those who survived, it increased the risk of only 14 days in the ICU.