Understanding the Link Between Obesity and Severe COVID-19 Outcomes: Causal Mediation by Systemic Inflammatory Response

Obesity and COVID-19: Immune and metabolic derangement as a possible link to adverse clinical outcomes

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Hematologic, biochemical and immune biomarker abnormalities associated with severe illness and mortality in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a meta-analysis

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

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Phenotypic characteristics and prognosis of inpatients with COVID-19 and diabetes: the CORONADO study

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Obesity predisposes to the risk of higher mortality in young COVID‐19 patients

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Obesity could shift severe COVID-19 disease to younger ages

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Clinical Characteristics of Covid-19 in New York City

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

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Prevalence of obesity among adult inpatients with COVID-19 in France

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Body Mass Index and Risk for Intubation or Death in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

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Severe COVID-19 is marked by a dysregulated myeloid cell compartment

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Elevated calprotectin and abnormal myeloid cell subsets discriminate severe from mild COVID-19

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Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 — Preliminary Report

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Hypercoagulopathy and Adipose Tissue Exacerbated Inflammation May Explain Higher Mortality in COVID-19 Patients With Obesity

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Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Poor Early Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19

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Quantitative and qualitative alterations of circulating myeloid cells and plasmacytoid DC in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

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Association Between Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19

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commentary: COVID-19 and Obesity: Exploring Biologic Vulnerabilities, Structural Disparities, and Weight Stigma

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The role of visceral adiposity in the severity of COVID-19: Highlights from a unicenter cross-sectional pilot study in Germany

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Efficacy of Tocilizumab in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19

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Massachusetts general hospital Covid-19 registry reveals two distinct populations of hospitalized patients by race and ethnicity

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Differences in Obesity Prevalence by Demographics and Urbanization in US Children and Adolescents, 2013-2016

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Biases introduced by filtering electronic health records for patients with “complete data”

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Adapting to obesity with adipose tissue inflammation

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From C-Reactive Protein to Interleukin-6 to Interleukin-1

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Predictive value of abdominal obesity vs. body mass index for determining risk of intensive care unit mortality

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Identification, Inference and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effects

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Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation Accelerates Atherosclerosis in Apolipoprotein E–Deficient Mice

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