{"id":7393,"date":"2020-07-27T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2025-05-12T22:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:04:19","slug":"even-mild-obesity-raises-odds-for-severe-covid-19-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/even-mild-obesity-raises-odds-for-severe-covid-19-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Mild Obesity Raises Odds for Severe COVID-19 Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/slimming-2728331_640-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/slimming-2728331_640-1-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/slimming-2728331_640-1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/slimming-2728331_640-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/slimming-2728331_640-1-1-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> It might be time to focus on your health goals. The latest report from Newsweek claims that even the &#8220;mildly obese&#8221; are at a higher risk for developing severe COVID-19 complications. Here is some more startling information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Obesity Federation has called for the government to intervene after gathering evidence to prove a link between obesity and the severity of COVID-19. A second global entity, the World Health Organization, now lists obesity as a risk factor for getting seriously ill with COVID-19. Thirdly, a report out of the UK suggests that two thirds of those with severe COVID-19 were overweight or obese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Italian report suggests that 99% of the deaths occurred in patients with pre-existing conditions that are commonly seen in obese people: hypertension, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. While this is very upsetting that is not all&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newsweek just declared that even being <strong>mildy obese<\/strong> puts a person at a higher risk of developing severe complications COVID-19 and death. A study with over 4,000 patients in New York City found obesity may be one of the main risk factors of COVID-19 hospitalizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/weight-loss-surgery-procedures\/gastric-sleeve-surgery\/\">Weight Loss Surgery<\/a>&nbsp;and other weight loss surgical questions, please call&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/contactus\/\">BeLiteWeight<\/a>&nbsp;today at 1-800-215-6497! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Cited Sources <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> https:\/\/eje.bioscientifica.com\/view\/journals\/eje\/aop\/eje-20-0541\/eje-20-0541.xml  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/even-mild-obesity-linked-severe-covid-19-death-study-1518189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/even-mild-obesity-linked-severe-covid-19-death-study-1518189<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2020-07-23\/even-mild-obesity-raises-odds-for-severe-covid  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be time to focus on your health goals. The latest report from Newsweek claims that even the &#8220;mildly obese&#8221; are at a higher risk for developing severe COVID-19 complications. Here is some more startling information: The World Obesity Federation has called for the government to intervene after gathering evidence to prove a link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,6,11,9,18,4,5,47,14],"tags":[941,939,48,942,919],"class_list":["post-7393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss","category-bariatric-surgery","category-gastric-bypass","category-gastric-sleeve-plication","category-gastric-sleeve-surgery","category-general","category-health","category-lap-band","category-obesity","category-weight-loss-surgery","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-obesity-2","tag-severe-covid","tag-weight-loss-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}