{"id":15071,"date":"2024-10-28T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T09:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2024-11-13T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T09:54:17","slug":"obesity-may-raise-risk-of-long-covid-in-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/obesity-may-raise-risk-of-long-covid-in-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity May Raise Risk of Long COVID in Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Jennifer Henderson<\/p>\n<p>Source Medpagetoday<\/p>\n<p>Elevated body mass index (BMI) in children and young adults was associated with an increased risk of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), or long COVID, a large retrospective cohort study suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Those with obesity had a 25.4% increased risk of long COVID (relative risk [RR] 1.25, 95% CI 1.06-1.48) and those with severe obesity had a 42.1% increased risk (RR 1.42, 95% CI 1.25-1.61) compared with children and young adults who had healthy weight, reported Yong Chen, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, there was an increased likelihood of encountering any manifestation of potential long COVID symptoms and conditions among those with obesity (RR 1.11, 95% CI 1.06-1.15) and severe obesity (RR 1.17, 95% CI 1.14-1.21), they said in JAMA Network Openopens in a new tab or window.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pediatrics\/generalpediatrics\/112617\">https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pediatrics\/generalpediatrics\/112617<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Jennifer Henderson Source Medpagetoday Elevated body mass index (BMI) in children and young adults was associated with an increased risk of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), or long COVID, a large retrospective cohort study suggested. Those with obesity had a 25.4% increased risk of long COVID (relative risk [RR] 1.25, 95% CI 1.06-1.48) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,48,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-long-covid19","category-metabolic-syndrome","category-metabolic-syndrome-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15073,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions\/15073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}