Obesity: an Underappreciate Risk Factor for Severe Form of COVID-19

Obesity: an Underappreciate Risk Factor for Severe Form of COVID-19: Retrospective Cohort Study of 415 Cases

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05771857

Enrollment

415

Registered

2023-03-16

Start date

2020-03-01

Completion date

2021-10-01

Last updated

2023-03-16

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Conditions

COVID-19 Pandemic, Obesity

Brief summary

Our study has the objective of identifying the epidemiological profil of the patients, as well as, the clinical, radiological and prognosis of obese patients with covid 19.

Detailed description

Introduction: COVID 19 pandemic continues to progress with a considerable mortality and morbidity throughout the world since its emergence in December 2019. Many studies were conducted to identify the predictive factors of mortality of those infected with the virus. The previous studies noticed that obesity seems to be associated with severe form of respiratory distress syndrome. Our study has the objective of identifying the epidemiological profil of the patients, as well as, the clinical, radiological and prognosis of obese patients with covid 19. Methods: investigators led a retrospective monocentric, descriptive and analytic study, in the department of anesthesia and intensive care unit of the university hospital of Mohamed VI Oujda, in Morocco, from March 2020 to October 2021, including all the patients tested positive for the infection.

Interventions

DEVICEObesity

the objective of identifying the epidemiological profil of the patients, as well as, the clinical, radiological and prognosis of obese patients with covid 19

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

OTHER

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* All patients presenting an infection with SARS-CoV-2 that were hospitalized in the intensive care unit.

Exclusion criteria

* None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Obesity: An underappreciate risk factor for severe form of COVID-19: Retrospective cohort study of 415 cases	in all the 22 mounths	Is obesity a predictive factor of need of intensive care, in addition to the mortality of covid 19?
Risk factor for severe form of COVID-19	in all the 22 mounths	identify the epidemiological profil of the patients, as well as, the clinical, radiological and prognosis of obese patients with covid 19.

Countries

Morocco

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026