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An evaluation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising on sugar-sweetened beverage purchases from 2015 to 2017: A before-and-after study

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Risk Factors Associated with Clinical Outcomes in 323 COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients in Wuhan, China

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30-day mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the Italian epidemic: a prospective cohort study

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Immunophenotyping of COVID-19 and influenza highlights the role of type I interferons in development of severe COVID-19

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Exploratory Analysis of Nutritional Quality and Metrics of Snack Consumption among Nepali Children during the Complementary Feeding Period

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“Obesity Paradox” in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Asystematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Exploring secular changes in the association between BMI and waist circumference in Mexican-Origin and white women: A comparison of Mexico and the United States

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From SARS to MERS: 10 years of research on highly pathogenic human coronaviruses

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Leptin Metabolically Licenses T Cells for Activation To Link Nutrition and Immunity

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Morbidly Obese Human Subjects Have Increased Peripheral Blood CD4+ T Cells With Skewing Toward a Treg- and Th2-Dominated Phenotype

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Is the burden of overweight shifting to the poor across the globe? Time trends among women in 39 low- and middle-income countries (1991–2008)

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