Obesity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients without comorbidities, a post-hoc analysis from ORCHID trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Large body of studies described individuals with obesity experiencing a worse prognosis in COVID-19. However, the effects of obesity on the prognosis of COVID-19 in patients without comorbidities have not been studied. Therefore, the current study aimed to provide evidence of the relationship between obesity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients without comorbidities.

Methods

A total of 116 hospitalized COVID-19 patients without comorbidities from the ORCHID study (Patients with COVID-19 from the Outcomes Related to COVID-19 Treated with Hydroxychloroquine among Inpatients with Symptomatic Disease) were included. Obesity is defined as a BMI of ≥30 kg/m². A Cox regression analysis was used to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) for discharge and de

SUBMITTER: Yu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9372447 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature