An Extract from https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Unlike the first wave of Covid-19 when most people requiring hospitalisation were the elderly and people with comorbidities, this time younger people — those younger than 40 years old — are developing severe symptoms that necessitate hospital stay. While one explanation for this is the increased virulence of the coronavirus in circulation, doctors say obesity might also be playing a big role in this.
According to Dr Suresh Kumar, medical director, Lok Nayak Hospital, most of the younger Covid-positive people requiring admission in his hospital were either overweight or obese. “Two patients aged 40 and 41 years died in our hospital on Thursday. One of them weighed 120 kg, the other around 90 kg,” Kumar revealed, while explaining that obese people have high insulin resistance and their lung function and respiratory reserve are also compromised, thus predisposing them to disease-related complications.