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Obesity paradox in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: Have you fully considered the confounding factors?

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: There exists a notion that there is an obesity paradox in the prognosis of community-acquired pneumonia. In other words, obese individuals with community-acquired pneumonia have a better prognosis. The study by Wang et al supports this claim, but we believe that the obesity paradox should not be proposed hastily as it is influenced by numerous subjective and objective confounding factors.

Source: World Journal of Clinical Cases

DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i9.97915

Authors: Jin-Ke Sun, Hui Tian

Institutions: Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liaocheng People's Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung