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Comment
. 2020 Aug;28(8):1370.
doi: 10.1002/oby.22877. Epub 2020 Jul 10.

COVID-19 Ventilatory Phenotypes and Obesity: Is There a Relationship?

Hugo Costa  1   2 , Miguel Jacob  2   3 , Rafaela Pereira  2   4 , Roberto Calças  2   5 , Daniel Nuñez  6
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COVID-19 Ventilatory Phenotypes and Obesity: Is There a Relationship?

Hugo Costa et al. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 Aug.
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