{"id":14066,"date":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/13\/influenza-hospitalization-more-likely-in-underweight-obese\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:58:41","slug":"influenza-hospitalization-more-likely-in-underweight-obese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/13\/influenza-hospitalization-more-likely-in-underweight-obese\/","title":{"rendered":"Influenza Hospitalization More Likely in Underweight, Obese"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Clinicians should consider body mass index when deciding on treatment course<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Dec. 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Adults with influenza are more likely to be hospitalized if they are obese or underweight than if they are normal weight, according to a study published online Dec. 4 in <i>Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe-Ann S. Moser, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues assessed 4,778 hospitalized and outpatient participants with influenza-like illness being treated in six hospitals in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that adults with influenza were more likely to be hospitalized if they were underweight (odds ratio [OR], 5.2), obese (OR, 3.18), or morbidly obese (OR, 18.4) compared with normal-weight adults. There was a sixfold increase in odds of hospitalization for obese adults with H1N1 versus H3N2 and B (obese, OR, 8.96 versus 1.35; morbidly obese, OR, 35.13 versus 5.58) compared with normal-weight adults. Underweight patients (OR, 4.07) and morbidly obese patients (OR, 2.78) were more likely to be hospitalized for coronavirus, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, and rhinovirus versus normal-weight adults.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clinicians should keep a patient&#8217;s body mass index in mind when evaluating risk and deciding on a course of treatment,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/irv.12618\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinicians should consider body mass index when deciding on treatment course<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}