Due to increase in weight, T-cells do not work properly, due to which the risk of swine flu is increased 3 times! There are so many problems physically due to weight gain, but do you know that this increases the risk of swine flu!
People with obesity are more likely to be influenced by swine flu infection than about three times as many people as possible. This has been revealed in a study of the Halite Obsessive Group. The swine flu is an infection affecting the human respiratory system due to H1N1 influenza.
Dr Kapil Agarwal, Senior Advisor and Director (Habilitated Center for Bariatric and Laparoscopic Surgery) explains that people with obesity usually have health problems already present, such as diabetes, hypertension and lung disease etc. Due to all these problems, the risk of swine flu infections increases manifold in obese people. Due to other infections, it is difficult to fight swine flu infection due to excess weight and pressure on the lungs.
In the medical language, the person whose BMI is 30 or more is in the category of extreme obesity. On the other hand, the person whose BMI is less than 30 is less prone to this infection even though it also falls into the overweight category. On the other hand, there is also a risk of death due to excessive obesity, whose BMI is more than 40, due to swine flu.
Dr Manish Tripathi, General Physician of Yashoda Hospital, told that although injections of influenza protection in the present time are the best way to protect people from the flu this injection does not prove effective in all cases. In normal practice, it has been found that despite giving Influenza shots to people with obesity, they are not fully endangered by the risk of infection. They affect diseases such as influenza and flu to a great extent.
He said that the reason behind this fact is that T-cells of obese people are unable to work properly. These are the cells that protect against the influence of influenza. This has been proved in different studies that T cells in the obese people have a different reaction on influenza injections. Therefore, to prevent seasonal and pandemic influenza virus infection, we recommend patients to adopt alternative treatments of healthy eating habits, exercise, yoga in addition to medicines.
Courtesy:md
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