Adult obesity is a risk factor for infection-related hospitalizations and mortality, with about 10% of infection-related deaths due to obesity in 2023.

Obesity contributes to more than 10% of infection-related deaths and up to 11% could be prevented by addressing obesity, ...

Being unhealthy weight raises risk of severe illness or death from most infectious diseases significantly, researchers find ...

The Lancet study finds obesity increases risk of hospitalisation or death from infectious diseases like COVID-19 and ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, Feb. 11, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Obesity contributes to about 1 in every 4 ...

Lancet study shows that being very overweight runs risk of hospitalisation from diseases including flu and pneumonia ...

About one in 10 infection-related deaths worldwide may be attributable to adult obesity ...

A new study suggests that people with obesity have higher rates of mortality and hospitalization from a variety of infections from viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria ...

“ (The) study of over 540,000 people suggests people with obesity are 70 per cent more likely to be hospitalised or die from ...

Obesity is well known to be linked to a broad range of adverse health effects, and key among them is impaired immunity, which is speculated to play a key role in increasing the risk and severity of ...

Researchers from the UK and Finland said that people with obesity were seen to have a higher risk of being hospitalised or ...