ArticleInfluenza and other respiratory viruses2013
Epidemiology of severe influenza outcomes among adult patients with obesity in Detroit, Michigan, 2011.
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- Obesity Increases the Severity and Mortality of Influenza and COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Pooled it
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- Females with obesity exhibit greater influenza vaccine-induced immunity and protection than males in a mouse model.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Elevated body mass index is not significantly associated with reduced influenza vaccine effectiveness.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Diet-induced obesity affects influenza disease severity and transmission dynamics in ferrets.Science advances · 2024Article
- Biomarkers as predictors of mortality in critically ill obese patients with COVID-19 at high altitude.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023Article
- K-medoids clustering of hospital admission characteristics to classify severity of influenza virus infection.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2023Article
- Obesity exacerbates influenza-induced respiratory disease via the arachidonic acid-p38 MAPK pathway.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
- Effect of Undernutrition and Obesity on Clinical Outcomes in Adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Obesity Is Associated With Increased Susceptibility to Influenza A (H1N1pdm) but Not H3N2 Infection.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- The impact of obesity on seasonal influenza: a single-center, retrospective study conducted in Israel.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2021Article
- Obesity as a risk factor for unfavourable outcomes in critically ill patients affected by Covid 19.Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD · 2021Article
- Factors Associated with Increased Morbidity and Mortality of Obese and Overweight COVID-19 Patients.Biology · 2020Review
- Respiratory Muscle Performance Screening for Infectious Disease Management Following COVID-19: A Highly Pressurized Situation.The American journal of medicine · 2020Review
- SARS-CoV-2 Infection and High-Risk Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: Are There Any Common Features?Urologia internationalis · 2020Review
- Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease, and Influenza: How Are They Connected?Current tropical medicine reports · 2020Review
- Targeting Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-Gamma Decreases Host Mortality After Influenza Infection in Obese Mice.Viral immunology · 2019Article
- Underweight, overweight, and obesity as independent risk factors for hospitalization in adults and children from influenza and other respiratory viruses.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2019Observational
- Impact of Obesity on Influenza A Virus Pathogenesis, Immune Response, and Evolution.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Review
- Is weight associated with severity of acute respiratory illness?International journal of obesity (2005) · 2018Article
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Abstract
We conducted a retrospective cohort study to evaluate the impact of obesity on influenza disease severity. Individuals with obesity were more likely to have lower pulmonary disease manifestations [OR=1·97 (95% CI 1·05, 3·69), P=0·03] and to be admitted to an inpatient ward [OR=2·93 (95% CI 1·50, 5·71), P=0·002] when compared with non-obese individuals. Among admitted individuals, persons with obesity were more likely to require a lengthy hospital stay [OR=3·86 (95% CI 1·03, 14·42), P=0·045]. Five of the six deaths in study subjects occurred in persons with obesity.
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