Obesity is a Risk Factor for Swine Flu

Friday, July 17, 2009  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

The Center for Disease Control is alarmed that obesity may make it much more difficult to fight off the swine flu.  Of ten severely ill swine flu patients at a Michigan Hospital, nine of them were obese.  None of these patients have fully recovered.
“What this suggests is that there can be severe complications associated with this virus infection, especially in severely obese patients,” said CDC virus expert Dr. Tim Uyeki.  “And five of these patients had ... evidence of blood clots in the lungs. This has not been previously known to occur in patients with severe influenza virus infections,” Uyeki said in a telephone interview.

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