Obese Patients More Likely To Recover From Pneumonia, Sepsis,

reports obese patients hospitalized for infectious diseases, pneumonia, and sepsis “have a better chance of surviving than those who are of normal weight, according to new research” presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Vienna. The “obesity paradox” was illustrated in three separate presentations. One study of more than 18,000 patients hospitalized in Denmark “found those who were overweight were 40% less likely to die, and those who were obese 50% less likely to die, than those of normal weight,” while a second study using data from 1.7 million US hospital admissions for pneumonia “that overweight patients were 23% more likely to survive and obese patients 29% more likely to survive than those of normal weight.” A third study of US patients with sepsis found “overweight patients were 23% less likely to die and obese patients 22% less likely to die than those of normal weight.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/24/obese-patients-more-likely-to-survive-infection-in-hospital