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. 2024 Sep 13:46:100460.
doi: 10.1016/j.ahjo.2024.100460. eCollection 2024 Oct.

Understanding the link between COVID-19, blood pressure and obesity: Perspectives from the New Orleans experience

Dahlene Fusco  1   2   3 , Sharon Liu  1 , Marc Theberge  4 , Anuhya S Pulapaka  1 , William Rittmeyer  1 , Yitian Zha  1 , Marlowe Maylin  1 , W Ben Rothwell  1 , Prateek Adhikari  3 , Peter Reynaud  1 , Keith Ferdinand  1   2   3 , Arnaud Drouin  1   2   3
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Understanding the link between COVID-19, blood pressure and obesity: Perspectives from the New Orleans experience

Dahlene Fusco et al. Am Heart J Plus. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Acute COVID-19; Clinical predictor of outcomes; Obesity; Pre-COVID hypertension; Systolic blood pressure.

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Conflict of interest statement

Keith Ferdinand is an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor for American Heart Journal plus and was not involved in the editorial review or the decision to publish this article. Arnaud Drouin and Dahlene Fusco declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: AD and DF have received investigator-initiated study awards from 10.13039/100005564Gilead Sciences, have served as site investigators for COVID-19 clinical trials sponsored by 10.13039/100005564Gilead, 10.13039/100009857Regeneron, and Metro Biotech LLC. DF has served on Advisory Boards for 10.13039/100005564Gilead Sciences and AXCELLA.

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