Just over one in 10 deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases are associated with obesity worldwide, finds a major new study led by a UCL researcher. People with obesity face a 70% higher risk of hospitalisation or death from an infection than those of a healthy weight, suggest the findings published in The Lancet . Obesity is linked to an increase in the risk posed by many different infectious diseases, from flu and Covid-19 to stomach bugs and urinary tract infections, and the

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