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Observational Study
. 2020 Nov 17;173(10):855-858.
doi: 10.7326/M20-2730. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

Obesity and COVID-19 in New York City: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Parag Goyal  1 , Joanna Bryan Ringel  1 , Mangala Rajan  1 , Justin J Choi  1 , Laura C Pinheiro  1 , Han A Li  2 , Graham T Wehmeyer  2 , Mark N Alshak  2 , Assem Jabri  1 , Edward J Schenck  1 , Ruijun Chen  3 , Michael J Satlin  1 , Thomas R Campion Jr  1 , Musarrat Nahid  1 , Maria Plataki  1 , Katherine L Hoffman  1 , Evgeniya Reshetnyak  1 , Nathaniel Hupert  1 , Evelyn M Horn  1 , Fernando J Martinez  1 , Roy M Gulick  1 , Monika M Safford  1
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Observational Study

Obesity and COVID-19 in New York City: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Parag Goyal et al. Ann Intern Med. .
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Figure.
Figure.. HRs for in-hospital mortality and respiratory failure according to BMI.
The association between BMI and in-hospital mortality (blue triangle) is explained by a J-shaped curve, whereas that between BMI and respiratory failure (orange square) is linear. The solid blue lines indicate CIs for mortality, and the dashed orange lines indicate CIs for respiratory failure. Covariates in both models included age, sex, race, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, end-stage renal disease, coronary artery disease, heart failure, and cancer. All analyses were done in STATA 14 (StataCorp) and SAS, version 9.4 (SAS Institute), with 2-sided statistical tests and significance levels of 0.05. HRs are provided with 95% CIs. BMI = body mass index; HR = hazard ratio.
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