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Case Reports
. 2020 Jul:108:154249.
doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2020.154249. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

Letter to the Editor: Obesity hypoventilation syndrome and severe COVID-19

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Case Reports

Letter to the Editor: Obesity hypoventilation syndrome and severe COVID-19

Jiao-Feng Huang et al. Metabolism. 2020 Jul.
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Declaration of competing interest The authors have no conflicts of interest related to this article.

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Chest computed tomography of the patient at hospital admission (A) and during the hospital stay on days nine (B), twenty-two (C) and on follow-up two weeks after discharge (D).

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