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Implications of the reverse associations between obesity prevalence and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases and related deaths in the United States

2020-06-11

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The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that was most recently discovered, quickly evolved into a global pandemic. Studies suggested that obesity was a major risk factor for its hospitalization and severity of symptoms. This study investigated the associations between obesity prevalence with overall COVID-19 cases and related deaths across sta...

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Literature Corpus work: 7de17424-08ee-57d4-8e7e-944ad197781e
DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.09.20127035

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