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ArticleMayo Clinic proceedings2021

The Obesity Paradox in Infections and Implications for COVID-19.

Carl J Lavie, Douglas B Coursin, Micah T Long

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Article in Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evaluating the obesity paradox in patients with sepsis and cancer.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025
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  6. The impact of body mass index on long-term survival after ICU admission due to COVID-19: A retrospective multicentre study.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2023
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  7. COVID-19: Reducing the risk via diet and lifestyle.Journal of integrative medicine · 2023
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  18. Is obesity a risk factor in cancer patients with COVID-19?Future oncology (London, England) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Carl J LavieDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Ochsner Clinical School-The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA. Electronic address: clavie@ochsner.org.
Douglas B CoursinDepartments of Anesthesiology and Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
Micah T LongDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Body Mass IndexSARS-CoV-2ComorbidityCOVID-19HumansObesityPandemics

Identifiers

PMID33673900
PMCPMC7835093

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