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Study links visceral fat to COVID-19 ICU admission risk

  • Writer: Preeti Bansal Kshirsagar
    Preeti Bansal Kshirsagar
  • Jan 14, 2021
  • 1 min read

A study in the journal Obesity found that patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit, as well as those treated with mechanical ventilation, had a greater visceral fat area value, compared with patients hospitalized with COVID-19 not taken to the ICU or treated with ventilation. The findings were based on data from an analysis of six studies encompassing 560 COVID-19 patients.



 
 
 

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