Obesity driving one in six UK deaths from infection, new research reveals

Obesity is driving one in six deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases, new research suggests.

Globally, obesity may have been a driving factor in 0.6 million out of 5.4 million deaths from infectious diseases in 2023, according to the new study, while in the UK, it accounted for 7,300 out of 42,000 deaths in that year.