Response to Letter to the Editor From Nelson et al: "Understanding the Link Between Obesity and Severe COVID-19 Outcomes: Causal Mediation by Systemic Inflammatory Response"

Andrea S Foulkes^{1

2

3}, Caitlin Selvaggi¹, Daniel Shinnick¹, Heidi Lumish⁴, Tingyi Cao^{1

3}, Tanayott Thaweethai^{1

2}, Jing Qian⁵, James B Meigs², Virginia A Triant², Ingrid V Bassett², Muredach P Reilly^{4

6}

Affiliations

¹ Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
⁵ Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
⁶ Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Editorial

Andrea S Foulkes et al. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022.

. 2022 Dec 17;108(1):e13.

doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgac620.

¹ Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
⁵ Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
⁶ Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

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Comment on

Understanding the Link Between Obesity and Severe COVID-19 Outcomes: Causal Mediation by Systemic Inflammatory Response.
Foulkes AS, Selvaggi C, Shinnick D, Lumish H, Kim E, Cao T, Thaweethai T, Qian J, Lu F, Yan J, Cheng D, He W, Clerkin KJ, Madhavan MV, Meigs JB, Triant VA, Lubitz SA, Gupta A, Bassett IV, Reilly MP. Foulkes AS, et al. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 Jan 18;107(2):e698-e707. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgab629. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022. PMID: 34473294 Free PMC article.
Letter to the Editor From Nelson et al: "Understanding the Link Between Obesity and Severe COVID-19 Outcomes: Causal Mediation by Systemic Inflammatory Response".
Nelson K, Prior JC, Kalidasan D, Tanenbaum C, Shirin S, Berger C, Goshtasebi A. Nelson K, et al. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 Dec 17;108(1):e11-e12. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgac619. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022. PMID: 36268884 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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