Overweight patients admitted to hospital with an infectious disease are twice as likely to survive as non-obese people. This conclusion was reached by Danish scientists led by Dr. Sigrid Gribsholt from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the Aarhus University Hospital..

For the study, the results of which were presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Vienna, researchers looked at data from more than 18,000 Danes who were hospitalized for an emergency medical or surgical procedure between 2011 and 2015..

Looking at deaths within 90 days of discharge, they found that overweight patients were 40% less likely to die than normal weight patients.. For those who suffered from obesity, this figure increased to 50%.

The trend continued with various concomitant factors, such as smoking, recent weight changes, or the presence of other illnesses..

Dr. Gribsholt told The Independent about the possible reasons for such results.

“Perhaps obese patients have more extensive energy stores that could be useful in acute illnesses.. In addition, obesity is associated with chronic stimulation of the immune system, which may also be beneficial in acute illnesses,” she said..

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The publication cites data from another recently presented study.. Doctors at the Taipei Medical University Hospital and John Peter Smith Hospital in Texas studied patient data from 1,000 American hospitals..

It turned out that overweight patients had a 29% and 22% higher chance of surviving pneumonia and sepsis, respectively, than those who were not obese..

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