COVID‐19 Ventilatory Phenotypes and Obesity: Is There a Relationship?

Obesity has been recognized as an independent risk factor in other viral infections such as H1N1 (1). Although data are scarce at this stage, there is also an unexplained increased prevalence of obesity in patients infected with SARS‐CoV‐2 admitted to the intensive care units (ICU) (2).

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Veröffentlicht in:	Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) Md.), 2020-08, Vol.28 (8), p.1370-1370
Hauptverfasser:	Costa, Hugo, Jacob, Miguel, Pereira, Rafaela, Calças, Roberto, Nuñez, Daniel
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Betacoronavirus Coronavirus Infections Coronaviruses COVID-19 Genotype & phenotype Humans Influenza Intensive care Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor Obesity Pandemics Phenotype Pneumonia Pneumonia, Viral Respiratory distress syndrome SARS-CoV-2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Ventilators
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Zusammenfassung:	Obesity has been recognized as an independent risk factor in other viral infections such as H1N1 (1). Although data are scarce at this stage, there is also an unexplained increased prevalence of obesity in patients infected with SARS‐CoV‐2 admitted to the intensive care units (ICU) (2).
ISSN:	1930-7381 1930-739X
DOI:	10.1002/oby.22877