COVID-19 Outcomes in Minority Ethnic Groups: Do Obesity and Metabolic Risk Play a Role?
COVID-19
Ethnic inequalities
Metabolic risk
Obesity
Social determinants of health
Journal
Current obesity reports
ISSN: 2162-4968
Titre abrégé: Curr Obes Rep
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101578283
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
Historique:
accepted:
02
09
2021
pubmed:
17
10
2021
medline:
26
8
2022
entrez:
16
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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, play a role. Two UK Biobank studies have reported that the 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. 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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34655051
doi: 10.1007/s13679-021-00459-5
pii: 10.1007/s13679-021-00459-5
pmc: PMC8518892
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
107-115Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).