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ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2020

Increased Severity of COVID-19 in People with Obesity: Are We Overlooking Plausible Biological Mechanisms?

Eduardo Tibiriçá, Andrea De Lorenzo

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Article in Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Reviving the mutual impact of SARS-COV-2 and obesity on patients: From morbidity to mortality.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022
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  8. Tackling obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic.Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews · 2021
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  12. Asthma among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and related outcomes.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2020
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  14. Systemic microvascular dysfunction in COVID-19.American journal of cardiovascular disease · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Eduardo TibiriçáResearch and Teaching Department, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Andrea De LorenzoResearch and Teaching Department, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8522-6612

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRespiratory Distress SyndromeBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansObesitySARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32403201
PMCPMC7273012

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