United States: As per a recent study, researchers investigated the risks associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 or (SARS-CoV-2) infection susceptibility and risk factors like obesity, age, and comorbidities especially.
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The researchers conducted an extensive study using data from approx. Six hundred eighty thousand patients were taken from the electronic medical records (EMRs) of the Mass General Brigham’s (MGB) database.
The study found a major rise in the risk of productive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients exposed to SARS-CoV-2.
The findings added to the existing literature showcasing that the increased severity of Covid meds in obese patients remarks weight management as a critical preventive measure in efforts against the causative agent of the most horrific human pandemic in recent times.
About Covid pandemic effects
Covid has been seen as the most devasting pandemic in modern human history, impacting more than seven hundred million people and has claimed lives of over seven million lives since 2019, as news-medical.net reported.
Its major causative agent, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is spread by exposure to infected individuals, their body fluids, or articles they have recently contacted, making social distancing critical in limiting the disease’s transmission, especially during the early days of the pandemic.
Because of the wider usage of vaccines, they played an important role in controlling the spread.
Previously done, researchers focused on ideas that influence the pathology of Covid infections, revealing that old age, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), obesity, and hypertension can significantly worsen COVID-19 outcomes.
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The new study aimed to measure the rate of Covid transmission to people after probable infection exposure, along with its link with potential risk factors, especially weight (obesity), hypertension, and age, as news-medical.net reported.
The study revealed that among the participants in the age group of 13-64 years, obesity was prevalent among all age groups, whereas 33 percent of the individuals were found to be obese during the study period.
The study showed obesity as a major risk factor linked with 34 percent more chances of SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility than those who are non-obese people, remarking the importance of weight management programs as one of the effective tools to manage against Covid transmission.