Obesity and mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure

• Published in: International Journal of Obesity Vol. 45; no. 9; pp. 2028 - 2037
• Main Authors: Dana, Richard, Bannay, Aurélie, Bourst, Pauline, Ziegler, Caroline, Losser, Marie-Reine, Gibot, Sébastien, Levy, Bruno, Audibert, Gérard, Ziegler, Olivier
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.09.2021; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/699/1702/393; 692/700/478/174; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Body Mass Index; Body size; Body weight; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - complications; COVID-19 - mortality; Critical Illness; Critically ill; Epidemiology; Female; Food and Nutrition; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Hospital Mortality; Hospital patients; Human health and pathology; Humans; Infectious diseases; Intensive Care Units; Internal Medicine; Life Sciences; Male; Mechanical ventilation; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Middle Aged; Mortality; Mortality risk; Obesity; Obesity - complications; Overweight; Overweight - complications; Patient outcomes; Patients; Public Health; Respiratory distress syndrome; Respiratory failure; Respiratory Insufficiency - complications; Respiratory Insufficiency - mortality; Retrospective Studies; Risk; Statistics; Young Adult; France

Background Patients with obesity are at increased risk of severe COVID-19, requiring mechanical ventilation due to acute respiratory failure. However, conflicting data are obtained for intensive care unit (ICU) mortality. Objective To analyze the relationship between obesity and in-hospital mortalit...