Obesity Accompanying COVID-19: The Role of Epicardial Fat.

What it found

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Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

1. The impact of diabetes and obesity on the severity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 infection.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025
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2. The risk factor for instability metabolic health and severity.Materials today. Proceedings · 2022
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3. Coronavirus 2019 Infectious Disease Epidemic: Where We Are, What Can Be Done and Hope For.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2021
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4. Impact of obesity on COVID-19 patients.Journal of diabetes and its complications · 2021
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5. Commentary: COVID-19 and obesity pandemics converge into a syndemic requiring urgent and multidisciplinary action.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2021
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6. Obesity, malnutrition, and trace element deficiency in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: An overview.Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2021
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7. COVID-19 and Obesity: Role of Ectopic Visceral and Epicardial Adipose Tissues in Myocardial Injury.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021
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8. Visceral fat shows the strongest association with the need of intensive care in patients with COVID-19.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2020
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9. COVID-19 in people with diabetes: understanding the reasons for worse outcomes.The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology · 2020
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10. Diabetes Epidemiology in the COVID-19 Pandemic.Diabetes care · 2020
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11. Epicardial adipose tissue: fuel for COVID-19-induced cardiac injury?European heart journal · 2020
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12. COVID-19 in diabetic patients: Related risks and specifics of management.Annales d'endocrinologie · 2020
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13. Hypercoagulopathy and Adipose Tissue Exacerbated Inflammation May Explain Higher Mortality in COVID-19 Patients With Obesity.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020
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14. Cardiac macrophage density in Covid-19 infection: relationship to myocyte necrosis and acute lung injury.Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology
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Corrections and comments

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  High Prevalence of Obesity in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation.2020

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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