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Severe obesity, increasing age and male sex are independently associated with worse in-hospital outcomes, and higher in-hospital mortality, in a cohort of patients with COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York

Metabolism · 2020 · Vol. 108 · pp. 154262–154262

Leonidas Palaiodimos✉(Albert Einstein College of Medicine)Damianos G. Kokkinidis(Albert Einstein College of Medicine)Weijia Li(Jacobi Medical Center)Dimitrios Karamanis(University of Piraeus)Jennifer Ognibene(Albert Einstein College of Medicine)Shitij Arora(Montefiore Medical Center)William N. Southern(Albert Einstein College of Medicine)Christos S. Mantzoros(Harvard University)

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COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Long-Term Effects of COVID-19MedicineObesityInternal medicineBody mass indexDiabetes mellitusPediatricsRetrospective cohort studyUnivariate analysisMedical recordMultivariate analysis

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BetacoronavirusCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2Age FactorsAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityPneumonia, ViralRetrospective StudiesSex FactorsBody Mass Index

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