{"id":6076,"date":"2021-03-08T17:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:58:43","slug":"body-mass-index-and-risk-for-covid-19-related-hospitalization-intensive-care-unit-admission-invasive-mechanical-ventilation-and-death-united-states-march-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/08\/body-mass-index-and-risk-for-covid-19-related-hospitalization-intensive-care-unit-admission-invasive-mechanical-ventilation-and-death-united-states-march-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Mass Index and Risk for COVID-19\u2013Related Hospitalization, Intensive Care Unit Admission, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, and Death \u2014 United States, March\u2013December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Among 148,494 U.S. adults diagnosed with COVID-19 between March-December 2020, individuals with a BMI near the threshold between healthy weight and overweight generally had the lowest risks for hospitalization, ICU admission, and death, with higher risks associated with higher BMI. Obesity was a risk factor for hospitalization and death, particularly among adults aged &lt;65 years. Individuals in the highest BMI category (\u226545 kg\/m<sup>2<\/sup>) had a two-fold greater risk of death and 1.6-fold greater risk of hospitalization compared with patients with a healthy weight. Underweight COVID-19 patients had a 20% higher risk for hospitalization than those with a healthy weight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Kompaniyets et al.\u00a0(Mar 8, 2021). Body Mass Index and Risk for COVID-19\u2013Related Hospitalization, Intensive Care Unit Admission, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, and Death \u2014 United States, March\u2013December 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7010e4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7010e4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 148,494 U.S. adults diagnosed with COVID-19 between March-December 2020, individuals with a BMI near the threshold between healthy weight and overweight generally had the lowest risks for hospitalization, ICU admission, and death, with higher risks associated with higher BMI. Obesity was a risk factor for hospitalization and death, particularly among adults aged &lt;65 years&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/08\/body-mass-index-and-risk-for-covid-19-related-hospitalization-intensive-care-unit-admission-invasive-mechanical-ventilation-and-death-united-states-march-december-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}