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. 2021 Jan 4;151(1):9-10.
doi: 10.1093/jn/nxaa375.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Meets Obesity: Strong Association between the Global Overweight Population and COVID-19 Mortality

Jingzhou Wang  1 , Toshiro Sato  2   3 , Atsushi Sakuraba  4
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Meets Obesity: Strong Association between the Global Overweight Population and COVID-19 Mortality

Jingzhou Wang et al. J Nutr. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; coronavirus; global; mortality; obesity; overweight.

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Proportion of overweight population and risk of death due to COVID-19 among 176 countries. COVID-19 data from worldometers.info (1) was obtained on 16 October 2020 and BMI data were obtained from the WHO 2016 report (5) for 176 countries. The proportion of overweight [BMI (kg/m2) ≥25] population among countries strongly correlated with the number of deaths per 1 million population (adjusted R2: 0.20; P < 0.0001). COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.
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