According to British researchers, the risk of dying from COVID-19 increases with each unnecessary kilogram. The recently published report of the Public He alth England agency shows that obese people are as much as 40-90 percent. more likely to die from coronavirus infection than normal weight people.
During the lockdown, many forcibly locked up in their homes were feeling stressed and bored - for example, a study by the Society for Obesity in Madrid shows thatduring the coronavirus epidemic gained weight - by an average of two kilograms - almost half of Spaniards .Similar data also come from other countries, including Poland.
Meanwhile, people with a body mass index (BMI) of 30-35 die from Covid-19 by 40 percent, according to Public He alth England, under the British Ministry of He alth . more often . The risk is almost twice as high (90% higher than in people in the normal BMI range, i.e. 18.5-25), in people with a BMI value above 40.
- Current data clearly show thatbeing overweight or obese is associated with a greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, as is the case with many other life-threatening diseases" - said Alison Tedstone, a Public He alth England dietitian, quoted by Reuters.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges British people to lose weight, who himself admitted that he is trying to lose weight after suffering a heavy coronavirus infection in April.
"I am not usually a supporter of a baby-sitter and commandment policy, but the reality is that obesity is one of the factors of comorbidities," the head of government said.
Source: PAP
