COVID-19 and Obesity: An Epidemiologic Analysis of the Brazilian Data

Table 5

Multinomial logistic regression with ventilatory support as the dependent variable and age, sex, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes as independent variables.

	Ventilatory support
	Noninvasive vs. no		Invasive vs. no
	OR (95% CI)		OR (95% CI)
Age (Z-score)	1.331 (1.301–1.363)	<0.001	1.504 (1.463–1.547)	<0.001
Gender (F vs. M)	0.949 (0.911–0.989)	0.013	0.806 (0.768–0.845)	<0.001
Obesity (yes vs. no)	1.537 (1.414–1.670)	<0.001	2.302 (2.104–2.518)	<0.001
Cardiovascular disease (yes vs. no)	1.203 (1.153–1.255)	<0.001	1.271 (1.210–1.335)	<0.001
Diabetes (Yes vs. no)	1.217 (1.166–1.270)	<0.001	1.389 (1.323–1.459)	<0.001

CI: confidence interval; F: females; M: males; OR: odds ratio. , .