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. 2020 Oct;22(10):1953-1954.
doi: 10.1111/dom.14125. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

Body mass index and the risk of COVID-19 across ethnic groups: Analysis of UK Biobank

Cameron Razieh  1   2 , Francesco Zaccardi  1   3 , Melanie J Davies  1   2   4 , Kamlesh Khunti  1   3   4   5 , Thomas Yates  1   2
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Body mass index and the risk of COVID-19 across ethnic groups: Analysis of UK Biobank

Cameron Razieh et al. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2020 Oct.
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FIGURE 1
Association of body mass index (BMI) with confirmed COVID‐19 in white European (WE) and black and minority ethnic (BME) individuals. Odds ratio (OR) for COVID‐19 with BMI stratified by BME and WE groups (left) and in BME relative to WE (right). Reference (OR 1) were placed at BMI of 25 kg/m2. OR (lines) and confidence intervals (CI; areas) are plotted across continuous BMI values (x axes) between the 2.5th (20 kg/m2) and 97.5th (39 kg/m2) centile of the distribution. Shaded area as 95% CI. Analysis adjusted for: age at test, sex, social deprivation (Townsend score), smoking status, cancer illnesses (number) and non‐cancer illnesses (number), systolic blood pressure, HDL‐cholesterol, total cholesterol and HbA1c
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