Article
Obesity is associated with a distinct innate immune phenotype in severe COVID-19 patients
2022-08-22
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background/Objectives: </bold>Obesity is a chronic inflammatory disease that may impair immunity against SARS-Cov-2 in severe disease states. This study investigated whether the innate immune compartment is associated with obesity in severe COVID-19.<bold>Methods: </bold>This cross-sectional study enrolled twenty-seven ICU COVID-19 patients that were assigned to obese (BMI≥30 kg/m...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7e9d140d-8fa3-596b-bcff-feb94c5d20bc
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1967394/v1
