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Association between Obesity and Length of COVID-19 Hospitalization: Unexpected Insights from the American Heart Association National COVID-19 Registry by William J. Collins; Andrew Y. Chang; Yingjie Weng; Alex Dahlen; Connor G. O’Brien; Jason Hom; Neera Ahuja; Fatima Rodriguez; Nidhi Rohatgi is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background The mechanism for possible association between obesity and poor clinical outcomes from Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) remains unclear. ## Methods We analyzed 22,915 adult COVID-19 patients hospitalized from March 2020 to April 2021 to non-intensive care using the American Heart Association National COVID Registry. A multivariable Poisson model adjusted for age, sex, medical history, admission respiratory status, hospitalization characteristics, and laboratory findings was used to calculate length of stay (LOS) as a function of body mass index (BMI). We similarly analyzed 5,327 patients admitted to intensive care for comparison. ## Results Relative to normal BMI subjects, overweight, class I obese, and class II obese patients had approximately half-day reductions in LOS (–0.469 days, __P__<0.01; –0.480 days, __P__<0.01; –0.578 days, __P__<0.01, respectively). ## Conclusion The model identified a dose-dependent, inverse relationship between BMI category and LOS for COVID-19, which was not seen when the model was applied to critically ill patients.
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- Author
- William J. Collins; Andrew Y. Chang; Yingjie Weng; Alex Dahlen; Connor G. O’Brien; Jason Hom; Neera Ahuja; Fatima Rodriguez; Nidhi Rohatgi
- Publisher
- Korean Society for the Study of Obesity
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)