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CeFH lunch seminar: The obesity paradox - Among patients with infectious diseases, is obesity really protective?
Presentation by Tormod Rogne, NTNU
Presentation by Tormod Rogne, NTNU
30. Oct | 2020

Abstract
Studies consistently find that patients with severe infectious diseases have a reduced mortality if they are overweight or obese. This «obesity paradox» has lead clinicians and researchers to argue that a high body mass index (BMI) is indeed protective. But is this seemingly protective effect really true? We address this question in a Mendelian randomization study of the association between BMI and sepsis mortality.

The Centre for Fertility and Health is a Centre of Excellence (SFF) at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health funded by the Research Council of Norway.