Visceral adiposity, subcutaneous adiposity, and severe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): Systematic review and meta-analysis

Influenza and obesity: its odd relationship and the lessons for COVID-19 pandemic

(2020) Livio Luzi et al.   ACTA DIABETOLOGICA

Does high cardiorespiratory fitness confer some protection against pro‐inflammatory responses after infection by SARS‐CoV‐2?

(2020) Hermann Zbinden‐Foncea et al.   Obesity

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

(2020) Andrea Giacomelli et al.   PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

Effect of heart failure on the outcome of COVID-19 — A meta analysis and systematic review

(2020) Emir Yonas et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids

(2020) Liuliu Yang et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Computed Tomography Highlights Increased Visceral Adiposity Associated With Critical Illness in COVID-19

(2020) Sofia Battisti et al.   DIABETES CARE

Visceral fat shows the strongest association with the need of intensive Care in Patients with COVID-19

(2020) Mikiko Watanabe et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Commentary: Obesity: The “Achilles heel” for COVID-19?

(2020) Giovanna Muscogiuri 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

Visceral Adiposity and High Intramuscular Fat Deposition Independently Predict Critical Illness in Patients with Sars‐COV‐2

(2020) Yang Yang et al.   Obesity

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

(2020) Gabriel Pasquarelli-do-Nascimento et al.   Frontiers in Endocrinology

Lymphopenia in severe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): systematic review and meta-analysis

(2020) Ian Huang et al.   Journal of Intensive Care

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

(2020) Antonia Petersen et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Determining the worldwide prevalence of obesity

(2018) John J Reilly et al.   LANCET

Obesity, Fat Mass and Immune System: Role for Leptin

(2018) Vera Francisco et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Increased risk of influenza among vaccinated adults who are obese

(2017) S D Neidich et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY