COVID-19 Outcomes in Minority Ethnic Groups: Do Obesity and Metabolic Risk Play a Role?
Paul ColemanThomas M BarberThijs van RensPetra HansonAlice CoffeyOyinlola OyebodePublished in: Current obesity reports (2021)
Two UK Biobank studies have reported that the body mass index is more strongly associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality in minority ethnic populations than in White populations. A study of UK patients found that the strongest association between obesity and adverse COVID-19 outcomes was in people of Black ethnicity. Differences in the prevalence of obesity and its metabolic sequelae have been shown to partly mediate ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes, although not always consistently. It is possible that ethnic differences in the consequences of obesity may explain some of the remaining disparity in COVID-19 risk.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight gain
- weight loss
- high fat diet induced
- body mass index
- type diabetes
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- risk factors
- emergency department
- cross sectional
- skeletal muscle
- adverse drug
- patient reported