COVID-19 and obesity: links and risks

Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Jul;15(4):215-216. doi: 10.1080/17446651.2020.1767589. Epub 2020 May 22.

¹ John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine , New Orleans, LA, USA.
² Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia and INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute , Valencia, Spain.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford, CA, USA.
⁴ Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center , Cincinnati, OH, USA.
⁵ Section of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement, University of Verona , Verona, Italy.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Obesity; mortality; prognosis; severity.

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