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Author: Caussy, Cyrielle; Wallet, Florent; Laville, Martine; Disse, Emmanuel
Title: Obesity is Associated with Severe Forms of COVID‐19
  • Cord-id: pcc6mucj
  • Document date: 2020_5_21
  • ID: pcc6mucj
    Snippet: We have read with great interest the Brief Cutting Edge Report from Simonnet et al. which reports a high prevalence of obesity in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation. In the context of unprecedented health crisis due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, these results are of a great importance and may have major implications in public health strategy especially in western countries affected by a high prevalence of
    Document: We have read with great interest the Brief Cutting Edge Report from Simonnet et al. which reports a high prevalence of obesity in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation. In the context of unprecedented health crisis due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, these results are of a great importance and may have major implications in public health strategy especially in western countries affected by a high prevalence of obesity.

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