
Laboratory workerTEL AVIV Feb 10 Obese patients who have recovered from coronavirus are better protected from future infections than recovering from normal and overweight, according to a press release from the Israeli Sheba Medical Center. According to a press release, the study, which will be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in April in Lisbon, showed that Although antibody levels decline over time in both those previously infected and those vaccinated, antibody scores improve in those who have previously been ill, not in those who have been vaccinated. recovered from COVID-19 patients, and in vaccinated individuals, the quality of antibodies increases after infection, but not after vaccination. «In addition, the study showed that previously infected Coronavirus-infected obese patients had a “higher and more sustained immune response and protection” compared to overweight and normal weight patients. Thus, antibodies in recovered patients with a body mass index of 30 or higher, indicating obesity, were higher at all times time compared with patients with a body mass index below 30, suggesting that «obese people who were previously infected were better protected from infection in the future than those who were overweight or normal weight and were previously infected.»
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