Article
Association of Body Mass Index and Other Metabolic Risk Factors with Pneumonia Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients with Coronavirus Disease-19: An International Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study
2020-09-17
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies unveiled a relation between COVID-19 severity and obesity. The aims of this multicenter retrospective cohort study were to disentangle the association of body mass index (BMI) and associated metabolic risk factors, with pneumonia outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19, and explore the impact of age and sex on this relationship. Participants were COVID-19 patients admitted in intensive c...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0ad7f7d4-6e08-5065-8de8-975290591d81
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.3667634
