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Countries With Large Numbers of Overweight Adults Experience Much Higher COVID-19 Death Rates

By Kristen Pratt Machado On Mar 4, 2021

The World Obesity Forum released new data showing that countries where more than 50% of adults are overweight have 10 times higher COVID-19 death rates than nations in which more than 50% of adults are not overweight. Of the 2.5 million deaths due to COVID-19 illness across the globe, 2.2 million occurred in nations with a highly overweight population. This is not good news for the United States in which 75% of the adult population is overweight or obese. The World Obesity Forum proposes that those who are overweight or obese should receive priority in COVID-19 testing and vaccination. Click here to read more.

Kristen Pratt Machado

Kristen Pratt Machado is executive editor for Dimensions of Dental Hygiene and Decisions in Dentistry and director of publishing operations for Belmont Publications, Inc. She has been with Belmont Publications since its inception in 2002.

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