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. 2022 Dec;46(12):2068-2069.
doi: 10.1038/s41366-022-01215-y. Epub 2022 Aug 24.

Correlation between body mass index and COVID-19 transmission risk

Daniela de la Rosa-Zamboni  1 , Fernando Ortega-Riosvelasco  2 , Nadia González-García  3 , Sergio Saldívar-Salazar  2 , Ana Carmen Guerrero-Díaz  2
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Correlation between body mass index and COVID-19 transmission risk

Daniela de la Rosa-Zamboni et al. Int J Obes (Lond). 2022 Dec.
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Fig. 1. Probability of high spreading.
Probability of falling into the “High Spreading” category per unit of BMI.
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