{"id":5863,"date":"2020-04-10T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:23:57","slug":"high-prevalence-of-obesity-in-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-requiring-invasive-mechanical-ventilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/10\/high-prevalence-of-obesity-in-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-requiring-invasive-mechanical-ventilation\/","title":{"rendered":"High prevalence of obesity in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors analyzed the relationship between clinical characteristics and the need for invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) in this retrospective cohort study of 124 patients in France.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study showed a high frequency of obesity among patients admitted to intensive care (48%).\u00a0 The need for IMV was associated with male sex and increased BMI, and the odds ratio for IMV in severely obese patients was 7.36 when compared with normal-weight patients.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simonnet et al. (Apr 9, 2020). High prevalence of obesity in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation. Obesity. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/oby.22831\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/oby.22831<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors analyzed the relationship between clinical characteristics and the need for invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) in this retrospective cohort study of 124 patients in France.\u00a0\u00a0 The study showed a high frequency of obesity among patients admitted to intensive care (48%).\u00a0 The need for IMV was associated with male sex and increased BMI, and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/10\/high-prevalence-of-obesity-in-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-requiring-invasive-mechanical-ventilation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5864,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}