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The study, a collaborative effort between the University of North Carolina, Saudi Health Council and the World Bank, governments of the world will have to take more measures to tackle obesity. The lead researcher of the study called the findings "scary". According to the study, obese people, who are defined as having a BMI over 30, face a 113% higher risk of hospitalisation due to Covid-19, 74% higher risk of needing intensive care, and 48% higher risk of dying. "Individuals with obesity are also more likely to experience physical ailments that make fighting Covid-19 harder, such as sleep apnoea, which increases pulmonary hypertension, or a BMI that increases difficulties in a hospital setting with intubation,” said the study’s co-author, Melinda Beck. Read more at:

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The study, a collaborative effort between the University of North Carolina, Saudi Health Council and the World Bank, governments of the world will have to take more measures to tackle obesity. The lead researcher of the study called the findings "scary". According to the study, obese people, who are defined as having a BMI over 30, face a 113% higher risk of hospitalisation due to Covid-19, 74% higher risk of needing intensive care, and 48% higher risk of dying. "Individuals with obesity are also more likely to experience physical ailments that make fighting Covid-19 harder, such as sleep apnoea, which increases pulmonary hypertension, or a BMI that increases difficulties in a hospital setting with intubation,” said the study’s co-author, Melinda Beck. Read more at: