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Clinical and paraclinical approach to community-acquired pneumonia in obese individuals
Diana Fetco-Mereuta1*, Tatiana Dumitras1, Livi Grib2, Sergiu Matcovschi1, Eudochia Terna1, Virginia Cascaval1
https://doi.org/10.52645/MJHS.2024.2.01
Obesity is a metabolic disease that presents a real challenge for the medical system due to the significant increase in the number of obese people in recent decades. Currently, 38% of the global population is overweight or obese. Obesity is an important risk factor for multiple chronic pathologies and lung infections, especially pneumonia. For obese subjects, chronic proinflammatory status due to an excess of fat cells is characteristic