How obesity impacts outcomes of infectious diseases

Severe thinness is associated with mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective observational study

(2015) Jungyoup Lee et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

The gut microbiota plays a protective role in the host defence against pneumococcal pneumonia

(2015) Tim J Schuijt et al.   GUT

Obesity survival paradox in pneumonia: a meta-analysis

(2014) Wei Nie et al.   BMC Medicine

Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

(2014) Marie Ng et al.   LANCET

A case-control study of risk factors for wound infection in a colorectal unit

(2014) K Power et al.   ANNALS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

Obesity and Serious Infections

(2013) Dimitrios Farmakiotis   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

The Impact of Obesity on Risk Factors and Prevalence and Prognosis of Coronary Heart Disease—The Obesity Paradox

(2013) Alban De Schutter et al.   PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Obesity and susceptibility to severe outcomes following respiratory viral infection

(2013) Mark H Almond et al.   THORAX

Obesity and outcomes in patients hospitalized with pneumonia

(2012) S. Kahlon et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Impact of obesity on outcomes for patients hospitalised with pneumonia

(2012) Phoebe King et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Obesity is associated with improved survival in community-acquired pneumonia

(2012) Anika Singanayagam et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Obesity and the risk and outcome of infection

(2012) R Huttunen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Association of Weight Status With Mortality in Adults With Incident Diabetes

(2012) Mercedes R. Carnethon et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Obesity and Respiratory Hospitalizations During Influenza Seasons in Ontario, Canada: A Cohort Study

(2011) J. C. Kwong et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Predicting mortality in hospitalized patients with 2009 H1N1 influenza pneumonia

(2011) R. Riquelme et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE

Characteristics of hospitalised patients with 2009 H1N1 influenza in Chile

(2010) R. Riquelme et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

The obesity paradox in community-acquired bacterial pneumonia

(2010) Vicente F. Corrales-Medina et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Factors predisposing to acute and recurrent bacterial non-necrotizing cellulitis in hospitalized patients: a prospective case–control study

(2009) M. Karppelin et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease

(2009) Carl J. Lavie et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

(2009) Prospective Studies Collaboration   LANCET

Effect of body mass index on the outcome of infections: a systematic review

(2009) M. E. Falagas et al.   Obesity Reviews

A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   NATURE