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Jennifer Lighter, MD, NYU Langone Health, New York City.
Christopher Petrilli, MD, NYU Langone Health, New York City.
Leonardo Seoane, MD, Ochsner Health, New Orleans.
Clinical Infectious Diseases: “Obesity in patients younger than 60 years is a risk factor for Covid-19 hospital admission.”
medRxiv: “Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with Covid-19 disease in New York City.”
The Lancet: “Obesity and COVID-19 Severity in a Designated Hospital in Shenzhen, China.”
Obesity: “High prevalence of obesity in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation.”
CDC: “Adult Obesity Facts.”
