The coronavirus can infect body fat, new research suggests — a clue about obesity's link to severe COVID-19

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While obesity-related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease can independently raise the risk of severe COVID, scientists now have evidence that body fat may be a contributing factor.

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While obesity-related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease can independently raise the risk of severe COVID-19, scientists now have evidence that body fat may be a contributing factor.from Stanford University that has not yet been peer-reviewed found that the coronavirus can directly infect fat cells. That process, in turn, may activate a harmful cascade of inflammation that damages other organs, such as the heart or lungs.

Researchers have come to understand body fat as an active tissue rather than an inert mass. But scientists need further data to determine if extra body fat actually predisposes people with COVID-19 to hospitalization or death.Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg walks among thousands of white flags planted in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19 near Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, DC.

A second experiment reinforced those results: The researchers studied tissue samples from people in Europe who had died of COVID-19 and found the coronavirus had made its way into patients' fat tissue. Strikingly, virus concentrations in fat tissue samples were relatively on par with concentrations in heart and kidney samples, though lower than concentrations in lung samples.

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