Sunday, November 8, 2009

Obesity is more dangerous to a new flu.


Some research findings have been announced fat people can be more dangerous.
On 4th, Los Angeles Times (LAT) quoted a report which was published in JAMA (a medical journal of America associations) that obesity is as similar as risk probability of what pregnant women catch a new type of flu.
According to a written report, public representatives of health department in California had checked 268 patients who were identified by BMI from this spring on which the new flu started to last August 11th. 156 of 268 patients were obesity and diseased obese patients were 67 that were 25 percents.
Normally diseased obesity of whole people is 4.8 percents and the rate of diseased obese patients who got the new flu exceed diseased obesity rate of the whole people.
Based on the US CDC (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control), if BMI is over 30, adults categorize into obesity and if it is over 40, they are diseased obesity.
Pregnancy women rate that got the new flu is almost six times as many as the pregnancy women rate of the whole.
The researchers said obese patients who were infected with the new flu have already involved with some risk like lung conditions, heart trouble, and sugar diabetes.
This newsletter was reported that was supported to the results of experiments using rats.
The research team at North Carolina University also found that 42 percents of obese rats that had an infection were died but only 5 percents of slim rats were died. Lung of the obese rats did not make an immune cell that fights with virus.

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