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)