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Comment
. 2020 Jul;28(7):1175.
doi: 10.1002/oby.22842. Epub 2020 May 21.

Obesity is Associated with Severe Forms of COVID-19

Cyrielle Caussy  1   2 , Florent Wallet  3 , Martine Laville  1   2   4 , Emmanuel Disse  1   2
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Obesity is Associated with Severe Forms of COVID-19

Cyrielle Caussy et al. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 Jul.

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Data from 291 consecutive patients admitted to the intensive care unit in Lyon University Hospital, France, for SARS‐CoV‐2 from February 27 to April 8, 2020. (A) Distribution of BMI categories in patients who required mechanical ventilation (n = 121) and those who did not (n = 170) (t test). (B) Proportions of patients requiring mechanical ventilation during their stay in intensive care, according to BMI categories (χ2 test). Unpublished data. [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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