Hubungan Indeks Massa Tubuh dengan Keparahan dan Mortalitas Pasien Covid-19

Abstract

Covid-19 is a novel viral disease resulting in many casualties around the world, including in Indonesia. By the 19th of January 2022, the death rate is 3.36% higher than the world’s, i.e., 1.64%. Covid-19 -related death is caused by several factors; one of them is body mass index (BMI). A patient’s BMI affects the clinical condition as well as the severity of the case. Increasing BMI is believed to be a risk and mortality factor for Covid-19 patients. This research aimed at identifying the relationship between BMI and the severity as well as mortality of Covid-19 patients. From March 2020 to June 2021, as many as 345 in-patients at RSU Haji Surabaya were studied using the retrospective cohort research method. The data were analyzed using Chi-square with 0.05 significance value to see the relationship amongst its test variables. The results indicated that there was no significant relationship between body mass index and severity and mortality in Covid-19 patients. Therefore, it can be concluded that the severity and mortality of Covid-19 patients in Indonesia were not dependent only on the increase in BMI.

Keywords

• body mass index
• covid-19
• mortality
• severity.