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Comment
. 2020 Oct;28(10):1795.
doi: 10.1002/oby.22951. Epub 2020 Sep 2.

COVID-19 Rise in Younger Adults with Obesity: Visceral Adiposity Can Predict the Risk

Gianluca Iacobellis  1 , Alexis Elias Malavazos  2 , Tanira Ferreira  3
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COVID-19 Rise in Younger Adults with Obesity: Visceral Adiposity Can Predict the Risk

Gianluca Iacobellis et al. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 Oct.
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The authors declared no conflict of interest.

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