{"id":84899,"date":"2026-02-13T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84899"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:12:26","slug":"people-with-obesity-70-more-likely-to-be-hospitalised-by-or-die-from-infection-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/13\/people-with-obesity-70-more-likely-to-be-hospitalised-by-or-die-from-infection-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"People with obesity 70% more likely to be hospitalised by or die from infection, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1W11qm.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"During the pandemic, people living with obesity had a higher risk of being hospitalised or dying from Covid-19. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People living with obesity are 70% more likely to be hospitalised by or die from an infection, with one in 10 infection-related deaths globally linked to the condition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/people-with-obesity-70-more-likely-to-be-hospitalised-by-or-die-from-infection-study-finds\/ar-AA1W1g5O?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=698f2e50488a4e989c91d518d5b90684&amp;ei=52\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>People living with obesity are 70% more likely to be hospitalised by or die from an infection, with one in 10 infection-related&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/obese.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84900,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84899\/revisions\/84900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}