Clin Infect Dis: Obese adults or are more susceptible to H1N1 influenza.

July 16, 2020 // In a recent study published in the international journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, scientists from the University of Michigan and others found that obese adults or people are more likely to be infected with H1N1 influenza, and the findings may provide new clues and ideas for researchers to understand how infectious diseases such as influenza or new coronavirus infection affect the health of different populationsPhoto Source: Cc0 Public Domain researcher Hannah Maier says the findings are important because the number of obese people is growing rapidly around the world, with the number of obese people about triple since the 1970s; more and more people are becoming obese and we are dealing with the flu pandemic, and recently officials have announced that there may be another potential swine flu pandemic, which means that obesity is associated with an increased risk of disease and that the number of people infected with the disease is increasing in the futureIn the article, researcher Maier and others analyzed data from 1,500 individuals in 330 households recruited to the Nicaraguan Household Transmission Study, a community-based study that tracked the health of people who ingested in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, for 10-15 days, while researchers swazed and tested for flu infectionsThe study found that obese people were twice as likely to have a symptomatic H1N1 infection as non-obese people, and the researchers did not find a link between obesity and the seasonal H3N2 fluAt present, the researchers have not clarified the correlation mechanism between obesity and increased disease severity, chronic inflammation will increase with the aging of the body, and it is directly related to the occurrence of a variety of chronic diseases, independent research shows that obesity increases the body's inflammatory process, and reduces the level of anti-inflammatory cytokines, and obesity also damages the body's wound healing speed, causing breathing difficulties and increased demand for oxygenSince 2009, a strain called H1N1pdm infected humans with a swine-affected swine virus, and since then the strain has been infecting people around the worldJust this week, a new study from pigs from China suggests that a new type of H1N1 virus could lead to a pandemic in the future, highlighting the importance of continuing such research in the face of a new coronavirus pandemic, researcher Aubree Gordon saidAlthough we are currently in the midst of a new coronavirus pandemic, we are still not able to be alert to the emergence of other viruses, such as influenza, and the WHO is currently planning to provide a key service for global influenza surveillance to provide some advice on the development of vaccine-candidate strains and to investigate possible new influenza virusesOriginal origins: Hannah E Maier, Guillermina Kuan, Lionel Gresh, et alObesity is withd by sed ed oed d'e to influenza A (H1N1pdm) but not H3N2 infection, Clinical Enus (2020)DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa928.