Effect of obesity and body mass index on coronavirus disease 2019 severity: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China

(2020) Zunyou Wu et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan

(2020) C. Jason Wang et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China

(2020) Dawei Wang et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Clinical characteristics and imaging manifestations of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19):A multi-center study in Wenzhou city, Zhejiang, China

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Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

(2020) Wei-jie Guan et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

COVID‐19 in solid organ transplant recipients: Initial report from the US epicenter

(2020) Marcus R. Pereira et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Treatment of Severe Pulmonary and Cardiac Compromise in COVID-19

(2020) Jeffrey P. Jacobs et al.   ASAIO JOURNAL

Clinical Features and Outcomes of 105 Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Seattle, Washington

(2020) Frederick S Buckner et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical Features and Short-term Outcomes of 102 Patients with Corona Virus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China

(2020) Jianlei Cao et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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

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Obesity in Patients Younger Than 60 Years Is a Risk Factor for COVID-19 Hospital Admission

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Potential for Lung Recruitment and Ventilation-Perfusion Mismatch in Patients With the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome From Coronavirus Disease 2019

(2020) Tommaso Mauri et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Clinical and Autoimmune Characteristics of Severe and Critical Cases of COVID‐19

(2020) Yaqing Zhou et al.   CTS-Clinical and Translational Science

Patients with diabetes are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19

(2020) G. Targher et al.   DIABETES & METABOLISM

Characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 and cardiac disease in Northern Italy

(2020) Riccardo M Inciardi et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area

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Risk factors for severity and mortality in adult COVID-19 inpatients in Wuhan

(2020) Xiaochen Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Coronavirus Disease-2019 in Heart Transplant Recipients in Southeastern Michigan: A Case Series

(2020) Scott W. Ketcham et al.   JOURNAL OF CARDIAC FAILURE

Non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases in patients with COVID-19: A retrospective study

(2020) Dong Ji et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Risk factors for severe COVID-19: Evidence from 167 hospitalized patients in Anhui, China

(2020) Yuan-Yuan Wei et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an independent risk factor for mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

(2020) Yuwei Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Early antiviral treatment contributes to alleviate the severity and improve the prognosis of patients with novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19)

(2020) J. Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

The clinical feature of silent infections of novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in Wenzhou

(2020) Guiqing He et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY

Initial clinical features of suspected Coronavirus Disease 2019 in two emergency departments outside of Hubei, China

(2020) Wanbo Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY

Acute limb ischemia in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia

(2020) Raffaello Bellosta et al.   JOURNAL OF VASCULAR SURGERY

Epidemiology, clinical course, and outcomes of critically ill adults with COVID-19 in New York City: a prospective cohort study

(2020) Matthew J Cummings et al.   LANCET

Obesity could shift severe COVID-19 disease to younger ages

(2020) David A Kass et al.   LANCET

Covid-19 in Critically Ill Patients in the Seattle Region — Case Series

(2020) Pavan K. Bhatraju et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19

(2020) Eboni G. Price-Haywood et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Clinical Characteristics of Covid-19 in New York City

(2020) Parag Goyal et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Association of Obesity with Disease Severity among Patients with COVID‐19

(2020) Markos Kalligeros et al.   Obesity

High prevalence of obesity in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation

(2020) Arthur Simonnet et al.   Obesity

Risk of COVID‐19 for patients with obesity

(2020) Radwan Kassir   Obesity Reviews

Early treatment of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: A retrospective analysis of 1061 cases in Marseille, France

(2020) Matthieu Million et al.   Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Features of 20 133 UK patients in hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: prospective observational cohort study

(2020) Annemarie B Docherty et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Factors associated with hospital admission and critical illness among 5279 people with coronavirus disease 2019 in New York City: prospective cohort study

(2020) Christopher M Petrilli et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Smell and taste alterations in Covid‐19: a cross‐sectional analysis of different cohorts

(2020) Alberto Paderno et al.   International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology

Clinical findings of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in Jiangsu province, China: A retrospective, multi-center study

(2020) Rui Huang et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Risk Factors Associated With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Death in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia in Wuhan, China

(2020) Chaomin Wu et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

SARS-CoV-2 in Spanish Intensive Care Units: Early experience with 15-day survival in Vitoria

(2020) Helena Barrasa et al.   Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine

Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Residents of a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility — King County, Washington, March 2020

(2020) Anne Kimball et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Adult Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 — Georgia, March 2020

(2020) Jeremy A. W. Gold et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1–30, 2020

(2020) Shikha Garg et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Characteristics and Outcomes of Recipients of Heart Transplant With Coronavirus Disease 2019

(2020) Farhana Latif et al.   JAMA Cardiology

Experimental Treatment with Favipiravir for COVID-19: An Open-Label Control Study

(2020) Qingxian Cai et al.   Engineering

Clinical presentation and initial management critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Brescia, Italy

(2020) Simone Piva et al.   JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE

Letter to the Editor: Obesity as a risk factor for greater severity of COVID-19 in patients with metabolic associated fatty liver disease

(2020) Kenneth I. Zheng et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Severe obesity, increasing age and male sex are independently associated with worse in-hospital outcomes, and higher in-hospital mortality, in a cohort of patients with COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York

(2020) Leonidas Palaiodimos et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Different Hypercoagulable Profiles in Patients with COVID-19 Admitted to the Internal Medicine Ward and the Intensive Care Unit

(2020) Luca Spiezia et al.   THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS

Venous and arterial thromboembolic complications in COVID-19 patients admitted to an academic hospital in Milan, Italy

(2020) Corrado Lodigiani et al.   THROMBOSIS RESEARCH

COVID-19 in long-term liver transplant patients: preliminary experience from an Italian transplant centre in Lombardy

(2020) Sherrie Bhoori et al.   Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

The underlying changes and predicting role of peripheral blood inflammatory cells in severe COVID-19 patients: A sentinel?

(2020) Da-wei Sun et al.   CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA

Obesity: global epidemiology and pathogenesis

(2019) Matthias Blüher   Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official Clinical Practice Guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2019) Joshua P. Metlay et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Obesity, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemia in Childhood Are Key Modifiable Antecedents of Adult Cardiovascular Disease

(2018) Christy B. Turer et al.   CIRCULATION

The epidemiology of obesity

(2018) Yu Chung Chooi et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years

(2017)   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants

(2016)   LANCET

Optimally estimating the sample mean from the sample size, median, mid-range, and/or mid-quartile range

(2016) Dehui Luo et al.   STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

Impact of obesity on the risk of wound infection following surgery: results from a nationwide prospective multicentre cohort study in England

(2015) S. Thelwall et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range

(2015) Xiang Wan et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Leptin Mediates the Pathogenesis of Severe 2009 Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Infection Associated With Cytokine Dysregulation in Mice With Diet-Induced Obesity

(2013) Anna J. X. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Obesity and risk of sepsis: A population-based cohort study

(2013) Henry E. Wang et al.   Obesity

Body mass index and risk of pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2013) D. T. Phung et al.   Obesity Reviews

An Analysis of 332 Fatalities Infected with Pandemic 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) in Argentina

(2012) Ana M. Balanzat et al.   PLoS One

Body mass index and the risk of infections in institutionalised geriatric patients

(2010) Thomas E. Dorner et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Risk factors for severe complications of the novel influenza A (H1N1): analysis of patients hospitalized in Italy

(2010) M. Bassetti et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice Reduces the Maintenance of Influenza-Specific CD8+ Memory T Cells

(2010) Erik A. Karlsson et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Chronic Inflammation in Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

(2010) Rosário Monteiro et al.   MEDIATORS OF INFLAMMATION