- The majority of global COVID-19 deaths have been in countries where many people are obese.
- With coronavirus fatality rates 10 times higher in nations where at least 50% of adults are overweight, a global study found on Thursday.
- A “dramatic” correlation between countries’ COVID-19 death and obesity rates has been found according to the report.
- It states that 90% or 2.2 million of the 2.5 million deaths from the pandemic disease so far were in countries with high levels of obesity.
A recent news article published in the Reuters news report reveals that obesity is the main reason for covid 19 deaths.
What did the study analyse?
The study analysed the COVID-19 death figures from Johns Hopkins University in the United States and the World Health Organization’s Global Health Observatory data on obesity.
Strikingly, the authors said, there is no example of a country where people are generally not overweight or obese having high COVID-19 death rates.
“Look at countries like Japan and South Korea, where they have very low levels of COVID-19 deaths as well as very low levels of adult obesity,” said Tim Lobstein, an expert advisor to the World Obesity Federation and visiting professor at Australia’s Sydney University who co-led the report.
“They have prioritised public health across a range of measures, including population weight, and it has paid off in the pandemic.”
By contrast, the report found that in the United States and Britain, for example, both COVID-19 death rates and obesity levels were among the highest.
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Source: Reuters
