00:00People living with obesity are 70% more likely to be hospitalized or die as a result of an infection.
00:10This comes according to a major new study.
00:12Researchers have found that being an unhealthy weight significantly increases the risk of severe illness or death from most infectious diseases,
00:20including flu, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19.
00:26The study suggests that 1 in 10 infection-related deaths worldwide may be linked to obesity.
00:32The research indicates that obesity could already be a factor in around 600,000 of the 5.4 million deaths from infectious diseases recorded globally each year.
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