Covid patients with higher BMI are 61% more likely to die: CDC study
March 09, 2021
Excess weight can also lead to difficulty breathing
A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the vast majority of people in the United States who faced complications related to Covid-19 infection are either overweight or obese.
For the study, the researchers examined 150,000 Covid-19-hospitalised patients admitted across 200 hospitals in the US between March and December 2020. In the study, 50.2 per cent were classified as obese, while 27.8 per cent were overweight.
The study revealed that patients with a BMI of 45 or higher, which corresponds to severe obesity, were 33 per cent more likely to be hospitalised and 61 per cent more likely to die than those who were at a healthy weight.
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Imaging helps understand empathy loss in dementia
A patient with frontotemporal dementia discovers his grandson’s birthday cake in the fridge. He doesn’t think twice before getting out a knife and fork and eating every last piece an hour before the birthday party is set to begin.
For patients with this early-onset neurodegenerative disease, some of the first symptoms are a profound loss of inhibition and empathy, which leads to a change in social behaviour that is completely out of character.
“He wasn’t thinking about his grandson at all; and typically, that loss of empathy extends even for those things where empathy is usually most robust, for example toward pets or grandchildren,” said Dr. Elizabeth Finger, associate professor at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and a neurologist at St. Joseph’s Health Care London.
#LIFEHACKS: Ready or not, daylight saving time arrives this Sunday, March 14th. We’ll be turning the clocks forward an hour, which will lead to lighter skies later in the day, but it can have some not-so-sunny effects on our health. Here are some tips to help you cope!