{"id":8272,"date":"2020-07-16T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8272"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:43:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:43:32","slug":"bmi-and-future-risk-for-covid-19-infection-and-death-across-sex-age-and-ethnicity-preliminary-findings-from-uk-biobank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/16\/bmi-and-future-risk-for-covid-19-infection-and-death-across-sex-age-and-ethnicity-preliminary-findings-from-uk-biobank\/","title":{"rendered":"BMI and Future Risk for COVID-19 Infection and Death across Sex, Age and Ethnicity: Preliminary Findings from UK Biobank"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sattar et al. analyzed participants (n=4,855) from the UK Biobank and found a strong association between BMI and a positive SARS-CoV-2 test and COVID-19 related death. The gradient of risk\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">across the range of BMI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was steeper among those under 70 for COVID-19 related death<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">BMI was more strongly related to test positivity and death among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">members of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">non-white<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0racial groups<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sattar et al. (June 30, 2020). BMI and Future Risk for COVID-19 Infection and Death across Sex, Age and Ethnicity: Preliminary Findings from UK Biobank. Diabetes &amp; Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research &amp; Reviews.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.dsx.2020.06.060\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.dsx.2020.06.060<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sattar et al. analyzed participants (n=4,855) from the UK Biobank and found a strong association between BMI and a positive SARS-CoV-2 test and COVID-19 related death. The gradient of risk\u00a0across the range of BMI\u00a0was steeper among those under 70 for COVID-19 related death.\u00a0BMI was more strongly related to test positivity and death among\u00a0members of\u00a0non-white\u00a0racial groups.\u00a0\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/16\/bmi-and-future-risk-for-covid-19-infection-and-death-across-sex-age-and-ethnicity-preliminary-findings-from-uk-biobank\/\">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-8272","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\/8272","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=8272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8273,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272\/revisions\/8273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8272"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}