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COVID-19 outcomes in minority ethnic groups : do obesity and metabolic risk play a role?
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Coleman, Paul, Barber, Thomas M., Van Rens, Thijs, Hanson, Petra, Coffey, Alice and Oyebode, Oyinlola (2022) COVID-19 outcomes in minority ethnic groups : do obesity and metabolic risk play a role? Current Obesity Reports, 11 . pp. 107-115. doi:10.1007/s13679-021-00459-5 ISSN 2162-4968.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-021-00459-5
Abstract
Purpose of the review:
Globally, minority ethnic groups have been at higher risk of COVID-19 mortality and morbidity than majority populations. This review outlines factors that may interact to create these inequalities and explores the hypothesis that differing levels of cardio-metabolic risk, according to ethnic group, plays a role.
Recent findings:
Two UK Biobank studies have reported that Body Mass Index is more strongly associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality in minority ethnic populations than in White populations. A study of UK patients found that the strongest association between obesity and adverse COVID-19 outcomes was in people of Black ethnicity.
Summary:
Differences in the prevalence of obesity and its metabolic sequelae have been shown to partly mediate ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes, although not always consistently. It is possible that ethnic differences in the consequences of obesity may explain some of the remaining disparity in COVID-19 risk.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Translational & Experimental Medicine > Metabolic and Vascular Health (- until July 2016) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Translational & Experimental Medicine Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 (Disease), Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- Great Britain, Ethnicity -- Health aspects -- Research, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Health aspects, Obesity, Metabolism, Public health -- Social aspects | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Current Obesity Reports | |||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | |||||||||
ISSN: | 2162-4968 | |||||||||
Official Date: | September 2022 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 11 | |||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 107-115 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s13679-021-00459-5 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 September 2021 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 October 2021 | |||||||||
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