Genes & Diseases • Vol 10 • No 2
Weakened humoral and cellular immune response to the inactivated COVID-19 vaccines in Chinese individuals with obesity/overweight
November 2022 • Qian Zhu, Yingzhi Zhang, Juan Kang, Zhiwei Chen, Mingli Peng, Min Chen, Gaoli Zhang, Dejuan Xiang, Shuang Xiao, Hu Li, Ying Mei, Jie Yang, Xiaoya Qi,…
Inactivated COVID-19 vaccines have been widely used to vaccinate the Chinese population. However, limited literature exists to explore the effect of obesity on the humoral and cellular immune response to these vaccines. In this study, 132 high BMI (Body mass index) (obesity and overweight, BMI ≥ 24 kg/m2) and 82 normal BMI (BMI < 24 kg/m2) participants were enrolled. Adverse events (AEs), Spike receptor-binding domain IgG antibody (anti-RBD-IgG), neutralizing antibodies (NAbs), and specific B-cell and T-cell respo…