{"id":2847,"date":"2009-11-05T06:52:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T04:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2015-02-15T00:34:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T05:34:19","slug":"study-obesity-increases-risk-h1n1-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/study-obesity-increases-risk-h1n1-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Obesity Increases Risk of H1N1 Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NYT,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-sci-swine-flu4-2009nov04-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> hospitalization rates are increased for obese\/morbidly obese people with swine flu infections.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obesity appears to be a risk factor on a par with pregnancy for developing complications from an infection with pandemic H1N1 influenza, according to the most comprehensive look yet at swine flu hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>About a quarter of those hospitalizations have been for people who were morbidly obese, even though such people make up less than 5% of the population. That fivefold increase in risk is close to the sixfold increase observed in pregnant women&#8230;When the merely obese are included with the morbidly obese, they make up 34% of the American population. Yet they accounted for 58% of the hospitalizations in the study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The researchers found that two-thirds of the obese patients had a health problem that was previously recognized as an underlying risk factor for swine flu. The most common were chronic lung disease, heart disease and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>But that still left one-third of obese patients without other risk factors, said Dr. Janice K. Louie, lead author of the study and chief of the state health department&#8217;s influenza and respiratory syndromes section.<\/p>\n<p>There are many possible explanations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This parallels <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.med.umich.edu\/prmc\/media\/newsroom\/details.cfm?ID=1230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a University of Michigan report released a few months ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NYT, hospitalization rates are increased for obese\/morbidly obese people with swine flu infections. Obesity appears to be a risk factor on a par with pregnancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,24,28],"tags":[793,923,1126,1863,1600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}