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The Impact of Obesity on Disease Severity and Outcomes Among Hospitalized Children With COVID-19

DOI

41

Citations

27

References

2021

Year

Sandeep Tripathi, Amy L. Christison, Emily R. Levy, Jeremy McGravery, Aysun Tekin, Dawn Bolliger, Vishakha K. Kumar, Vikas Bansal, Kathleen Chiotos, Katja M. Gist,
Hospital Pediatrics

Abstract

In a large, multicenter cohort, a high proportion of hospitalized children from COVID-19 had obesity as comorbidity. Furthermore, obesity had a significant independent association with critical illness.

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