Obesity a risk factor in swine flu

Some swine influenza cases in Michigan are raising questions on obesity's role in why some folks with infections become seriously sick. A high proportion of people that have gotten severely indisposed from swine influenza have been chunky or extremely large, but health officials have voiced that might be thanks to the fact that heavy folk have an inclination to have asthma and other conditions that make them more susceptible. Obesity alone has never been seen as a risk factor for seasonal influenza. But in a statement released Fri., health officials detailed the cases of 10 Michigan patients who were uncommonly sick from swine influenza in late May and early June and stopped up at a specialized hospital in Ann Arbor. Two of the three that

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