Individuals with severe obesity, with a BMI of 40 or higher, are now considered at risk of developing severe outcomes from Covid-19 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With novel coronavirus spread across 187 countries, the significance of understanding populations at risk is ever-increasing.
GlobalData epidemiologists analysed the proportion of individuals over the age of 18 years across the nine major markets who are severely obese.
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