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SUBMITTER: Al-Salameh A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7679236 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Al-Salameh Abdallah A Lanoix Jean-Philippe JP Bennis Youssef Y Andrejak Claire C Brochot Etienne E Deschasse Guillaume G Dupont Hervé H Goeb Vincent V Jaureguy Maité M Lion Sylvie S Maizel Julien J Moyet Julien J Vaysse Benoit B Desailloud Rachel R Ganry Olivier O Schmit Jean-Luc JL Lalau Jean-Daniel JD
International journal of obesity (2005) 20201121 3
<h4>Background/objectives</h4>A growing body of data suggests that obesity influences coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Our study's primary objective was to assess the association between body mass index (BMI) categories and critical forms of COVID-19.<h4>Subjects/methods</h4>Data on consecutive adult patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 at Amiens University Hospital (Amiens, France) were extracted retrospectively. The association between BMI categories and the composite p ...[more]