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Determining whether ethnic minorities with severe obesity face a disproportionate risk of serious disease and death from COVID-19: outcomes from a Southern California-based retrospective cohort study
OBJECTIVE: Obesity has been recognised as a risk factor for poor outcomes associated with COVID-19. Ethnic minorities with COVID-19 have been independently found to fare poorly. We aim to determine if ethnic minorities with severe obesity—defined as a body mass index (BMI) above 40 kg/m²—experience...
Autores principales: | Patel, Hemesh Mahesh, Khandwala, Shefali, Somani, Poonam, Li, Qiaowu, Tovar, Stephanie, Montano, Alejandra |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9243495/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35768090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059132 |
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