Studies have revealed that obese COVID-19 patients are more likely to have serious complications

A research team in Italy published a paper: obese patients with new crown pneumonia are more likely to have serious complications

On February 6, local time, italian media reported on a paper recently published in the International Journal of Obesity, which was mainly completed by the Italian team, which revealed the pathology of obese patients with new coronary pneumonia who are more likely to have serious complications.

Illustration of related papers Image source: International Journal of Obesity

The paper pointed out that after the patient was infected with the new crown virus, the fat cells were destroyed, causing the fat plug to enter other body organs through the blood, forming a membrane structure in the lungs, which in turn caused severe respiratory dysfunction.

Professor Enzo Nisoli, a professor at the National University of Milan, added that obese patients infected with the new crown virus, especially those with internal organs, are more likely to develop fat inflammation caused by the death of fat cells.

The National University of Milan noted that Italian and French researchers reached the above conclusions by conducting autopsy studies of 19 deaths from COVID-19 and 23 patients who died from other diseases.

Founded in 1977, the International Journal of Obesity is a medical journal of nature publishing group. (Reporter Li Yaoyang)

Source: CCTV news client