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Obesity could shift severe COVID-19 disease to younger ages

2020年 5月 22日, 19:37

Obesity could shift severe COVID-19 disease to younger ages

(#)Younger coronavirus patients in the ICU tend to be more obese.

(#)Morbid obesity itself is sort of proinflammatory.

(#)⋯⋯cytokine storms and immune mishandling of the virus are so much more severe⋯⋯ if you have⋯⋯an already underlying proinflammatory state⋯

(#)ACE-2 receptor attaches is expressed in higher amounts in adipose tissue than the lungs⋯⋯lungs, ⋯⋯"This could turn into kind of a viral replication depot,"⋯"You may well be brewing more virus as a component of obesity."⋯
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanc ... 40-6736(20)31024-2/fulltext(Published:May 04, 2020)
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930275(May 11, 2020)
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