{"id":8721,"date":"2020-08-04T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:07:58","slug":"bmi-is-associated-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-intensive-care-unit-admission-in-african-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/bmi-is-associated-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-intensive-care-unit-admission-in-african-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"BMI Is Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Intensive Care Unit Admission in African Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"48\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A cross-sectional study of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">African American patients with COVID-19 treated in a single tertiary care center\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=158)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">between March 12 and April 9 found older age (OR 1.07, 95% CI 1.03, 1.11), higher BMI (OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.05, 1.18) and lung disease (OR 3.1, 95% CI 1.4, 8.4) were significant risk factors for ICU admission. In contrast with other patient populations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the majority of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cases (61%) were women.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Alkhatib<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 2020). BMI Is Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Intensive Care Unit Admission in African Americans. Obesity.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/oby.22937\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/oby.22937<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study of\u00a0African American patients with COVID-19 treated in a single tertiary care center\u00a0(n=158)\u00a0between March 12 and April 9 found older age (OR 1.07, 95% CI 1.03, 1.11), higher BMI (OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.05, 1.18) and lung disease (OR 3.1, 95% CI 1.4, 8.4) were significant risk factors for ICU admission. In contrast&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/bmi-is-associated-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-intensive-care-unit-admission-in-african-americans\/\">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-8721","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\/8721","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=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}