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Comment
. 2020 Aug;28(8):1374.
doi: 10.1002/oby.22887. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

Increased Severity of COVID-19 in People with Obesity: Are We Overlooking Plausible Biological Mechanisms?

Eduardo Tibiriçá  1 , Andrea De Lorenzo  1
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Increased Severity of COVID-19 in People with Obesity: Are We Overlooking Plausible Biological Mechanisms?

Eduardo Tibiriçá et al. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 Aug.
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