Archive for January 20th, 2011
Obesity Can Cause Flu TO
With a virus AH1N1 comfortable and installed between us, it is difficult to understand how the psychosis continues and we are not mentalizing in guard already without fear the worst. The worst already arrived, and in reality is not so serious. Anyway, I do not want back to play for the umpteenth time the debate on the psychosis of influenza A and I want focus in an interesting question.
Leo Yahoo that in the state of Michigan the alarm is lit because of a series of 10 cases of patients of influenza A, of which nine were obese or hyper obese. The element obesity generated questions about whether it impinged on the likelihood of flu swine, and today commented the doubts.
The scientific community came to say immediately that the obesity does not affect the chances of contracting the virus, but that the suffer the obese people conditions such as asthma or bronchitis, this increases your risk. Anyway, this is not tantamount to saying that the obesity in itself opens the door to the influenza A. Read the rest of this entry »