Epidemiological Study of Association of Obesity, Impaired Metabolic and Covid19
What’s Epidemiological Study?
Epidemiological study is the study of distribution, patterns and determinants of events and factors which are health-related in specific population. This study aims to understand disease processes that guide to control health problems.
From News Medical Life Sciences, in the topic of Study highlights link between obesity, impaired metabolic health, and COVID-19 severity reported that obesity and impaired metabolic health have interconnection with severe COVID-19. Obese persons are considered that they have BMI (Body Mass Index) of 30 or above. Impaired metabolic health covered hyperglycaemia, hypertension, subclinical inflammation, etc.
What type of epidemiological study?
Authors showed that researchers analyzed information by comparison of study groups with hypothesis that both obesity and impaired metabolic accelerated severe COVID-19. For providing information, independent relationships of obesity, disproportionate fat distribution and impaired metabolic health with the severity of COVID-19 cases were selected and used for study. Then, they compared severe disease in a group which has obesity or impaired metabolic condition with severe disease in a group which doesn’t has obesity or impaired metabolic condition. They performed odds ratio to investigate how severe that two conditions are considered as risk factors of this disease. Moreover, they study effects of COVID-19 on obesity and impaired metabolic condition. From the result, they conclude that obesity and impaired metabolic health are promotors and results of severe COVID-19, and suggested that weight loss and improvement of metabolic health were the way to cope with COVID-19 in people those who are metabolically unhealthy.
How reliable is this information?
This news is quite reliable due to providing information from a Nature Reviews Endocrinology. This review provided several researches to support hypothesis. According to cohort study, this study design generally provides high weight evidence. However, to gain more reliable, experimental studies are required.
