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| LETTER TO EDITOR |
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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 810 |
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Obesity among COVID-19 death cases: Observation from Thailand
Sora Yasri1, Viroj Wiwanitkit2
1 KMT Primary Care Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2 Department of Medicine, Dr. Dy Patil University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
| Date of Submission | 30-Mar-2020 |
| Date of Decision | 01-May-2020 |
| Date of Acceptance | 07-Jun-2020 |
| Date of Web Publication | 2-Nov-2022 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Sora Yasri
KMT Primary Care Center, Bangkok
Thailand
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/jdmimsu.jdmimsu_79_20
How to cite this article:
Yasri S, Wiwanitkit V. Obesity among COVID-19 death cases: Observation from Thailand. J Datta Meghe Inst Med Sci Univ 2022;17:810 |
Dear Editor,
COVID-19 is an important new disease.[1] The patient can cause a respiratory disease with a wide clinical spectrum from mild to severe. Death is also possible. Several underlying medical disorders are mentioned for association with mortality in COVID-19. Obesity is an important metabolic disorder. The relationship between obesity and some respiratory infections such as influenza is well documented.[2]
The association between COVID-19 has never been clarified. Here, the authors give the data from Thailand, the second country that COVID-19 occurs.[3] At present (March 30, 2020), there are 1524 patients with COVID-19, and there are 9 death cases (0.059%). Regarding obesity, 1 of all death cases has underlying obesity. For the non-death case, there is no observation on obesity. Odds ratio is equal to 534.882495% confidence interval = 20.3108–14086.0733). It can show that obesity is an important risk for mortality in patients with COVID-19.
Financial support and sponsorship
Nil.
Conflicts of interest
There are no conflicts of interest.
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| 1. | Hsia W. Emerging new coronavirus infection in Wuhan, China: Situation in early 2020. Case Study Case Rep 2020;10:8-9.  |
| 2. | Honce R, Schultz-Cherry S. Impact of obesity on influenza a virus pathogenesis, immune response, and evolution. Front Immunol 2019;10:1071. |
| 3. | Yasri S, Wiwanitkit V. Editorial: Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and imported case. Adv Trop Med Pub Health Int 2019;9:1-2. |
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