Excess body weight is an independent risk factor for severe forms of COVID-19.

Metabolism · 2021 · PMC7834365 · PMID 33421506

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There was a trend to borderline significance between overweight status and serious events with an OR at 3.81 (p = 0.09) ( Table 4 ). 4.

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Although CRP concentration was higher in excess body weight patients, it did not reach statistical significance in our study, but has been shown to be associated with severe forms of COVID-19 and death in several studies [ 21 , 22 ].

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Indeed, when we split the patients into 3 groups according to BMI categories, we showed a trend towards a positive association between the occurrence of a serious event linked to COVID-19 and the 3 groups of BMI with a progressive increase from 8.1% in the normal weight group to 20% in the overweight group and 30.6% in the obese group.

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