Sun Jin-Ke, Tian Hui
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250000, Shandong Province, China.
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng 252000, Shandong Province, China.
World J Clin Cases. 2025 Mar 26;13(9):97915. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i9.97915.
There exists a notion that there is an obesity paradox in the prognosis of community-acquired pneumonia. In other words, obese individuals with community-acquired pneumonia have a better prognosis. The study by Wang supports this claim, but we believe that the obesity paradox should not be proposed hastily as it is influenced by numerous subjective and objective confounding factors.
有一种观点认为,社区获得性肺炎的预后存在肥胖悖论。换句话说,患有社区获得性肺炎的肥胖个体预后较好。王的研究支持了这一说法,但我们认为,肥胖悖论不应仓促提出,因为它受到众多主观和客观混杂因素的影响。