Obesity and infection.

By Matthew E. Falagas, M. Kompoti. Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2006

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Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2025, neutral): “48 The recent COVID-19 pandemic exposed the disproportionate impact on patients with obesity.”
Epidemiology of severe sepsis (2013, background): “8 Virulence Volume 5 issue 1 serious complications of common infections.(49) Recently, Arabi et al.”
Human Skin Wounds: A Major and Snowballing Threat to Public Health and the Economy (2009, background): “Obesity has a clear but not yet precisely defined effect on the immune response through a variety of immune mediators, which leads to susceptibility to infections.(79)”
Severe obesity is associated with higher in-hospital mortality in a cohort of patientswith COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York (2020, neutral): “breathing by augmenting the airway resistance and is associated with decreased expiratory reserve volume, functional capacity, and pulmonary compliance [22,23].”