ReviewClinical obesity2020
Obesity: A critical risk factor in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Review in Clinical obesity, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 150 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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150 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 261 citations in OpenAlex.
- Economic burden of childhood overweight and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on eating disorders and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2021Pooled it
- Safety profile of semaglutide versus placebo in the SELECT study: a randomized controlled trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Trial
- Durable T-cellular and humoral responses in SARS-CoV-2 hospitalized and community patients.PloS one · 2022Trial
- Association of Body Mass Index with SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Inflammatory Arthritis Patients Receiving Biologic Therapy: Singapore National Biologics Register Findings.International journal of rheumatic diseases · 2026Article
- Obesity and respiratory diseases: mechanisms, phenotypes, and clinical implications.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2026Review
- Global Assessment of COVID-19 Mortality Displacement From 2020 to 2024.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- 'I think from my experience, it's a negative thing for most people': Exploring the perspectives of young British women opposed to the calories on menus policy in the UK.Journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- Jumping hurdles: a grounded theory study of factors influencing school nurses' role in pediatric obesity prevention in Saudi Arabia.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Clustering-based methodology for comparing multi-characteristic epidemiological dynamics with application to COVID-19 epidemiology in Europe.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Rewired type I IFN signaling is linked to age-dependent differences in COVID-19.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Article
- Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Hospitalized Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Comorbid Parkinson's Disease in Spain: A Nationwide Observational Study (2017-2023).Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of a Remotely Delivered Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Intervention With Online Community Support: Pilot Study.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- Heterogeneity of the Association Between Obesity and COVID-19 Mortality and the Roles of Policy Interventions: U.S. National-Level Analysis.AJPM focus · 2025Article
- The association between chronic underlying diseases and the clinical characteristics in adult patients infected with Omicron BA.1.Journal of virus eradication · 2025Article
- Influence of Educational Films on Antiviral Prescription for COVID-19: Insights from Web-Based Survey in Japan.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Correlation between blood cell indices and adiponectin and leptin levels in COVID-19.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Article
- Web-based high-intensity bodyweight interval training improves metabolic health and physical fitness outcomes in middle-aged men with obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Diet-induced Obesity: Pathophysiology, Consequences and Target Specific Therapeutic Strategies.Current protein & peptide science · 2025Review
- Assessment of serum biomarker changes following the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination: a cohort study in Sylhet, Bangladesh.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Obesity is an emerging independent risk factor for susceptibility to and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Previous viral pandemics have shown that obesity, particularly severe obesity (BMI > 40 kg/m
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