Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Meets Obesity: Strong Association between the Global Overweight Population and COVID-19 Mortality

J Nutr. 2021 Jan 4;151(1):9-10. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxaa375.

Authors

Jingzhou Wang¹, Toshiro Sato^{2

3}, Atsushi Sakuraba⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
² Department of Organoid Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Corona Virus Task Force, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; coronavirus; global; mortality; obesity; overweight.

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / complications*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / mortality
COVID-19 / virology
Humans
Obesity / complications*
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification