Obesity could shift severe COVID-19 disease to younger ages

Lancet. 2020 May 16;395(10236):1544-1545. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31024-2. Epub 2020 May 4.

Authors

David A Kass¹, Priya Duggal², Oscar Cingolani³

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: dkass@jhmi.edu.
² The Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
³ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Body Mass Index
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Obesity / complications*
Obesity / epidemiology
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Risk Factors

Grants and funding

R35 HL135827/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States