Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2020 Jul;8(7):562-564.
doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30160-1. Epub 2020 May 18.

Prevalence of obesity among adult inpatients with COVID-19 in France

Cyrielle Caussy  1 , François Pattou  2 , Florent Wallet  3 , Chantal Simon  4 , Sarah Chalopin  5 , Charlène Telliam  5 , Daniel Mathieu  6 , Fabien Subtil  7 , Emilie Frobert  8 , Maud Alligier  9 , Dominique Delaunay  5 , Philippe Vanhems  10 , Martine Laville  11 , Merce Jourdain  2 , Emmanuel Disse  12 ; COVID Outcomes HCL Consortium and Lille COVID–Obesity Study Group
Affiliations

Prevalence of obesity among adult inpatients with COVID-19 in France

Cyrielle Caussy et al. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Prevalence of obesity in patients with severe COVID-19 compared with the general population Severe COVID-19 was defined as any case requiring hospital admission (including admission to the ICU); among patients with severe COVID-19, critical COVID-19 was defined as requiring ICU admission. ICU=intensive care unit.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Prevalence of obesity in patients with critical COVID-19 compared with ICU patients without COVID-19 in the Lyon (A) and Lille (B) populations Critical COVID-19 was defined as any case of COVID-19 requiring ICU admission. ICU=intensive care unit.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

Comment in

  • Obesity, inflammation and COVID-19.
    Beretta A. Beretta A. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020 Aug 19;150:w20349. doi: 10.4414/smw.2020.20349. eCollection 2020 Aug 10. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020. PMID: 32812645 No abstract available.

References

    1. Zhu N, Zhang D, Wang W, et al. A novel coronavirus from patients with pneumonia in China, 2019. N Engl J Med. 2020;382:727–733. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Chen N, Zhou M, Dong X, et al. Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study. Lancet. 2020;395:507–513. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Shi Y, Yu X, Zhao H, Wang H, Zhao R, Sheng J. Host susceptibility to severe COVID-19 and establishment of a host risk score: findings of 487 cases outside Wuhan. Crit Care. 2020;24:108. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Chen Q, Zheng Z, Zhang C, et al. Clinical characteristics of 145 patients with corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. Infection. 2020 doi: 10.1007/S15010-020-01432-5. published online April 28. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Mahase E. Covid-19: most patients require mechanical ventilation in first 24 hours of critical care. BMJ. 2020;368 - PubMed

Publication types

MeSH terms