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Obesity and COVID-19: The role of visceral adipose tissue

2020-05-19 radiology and imaging Title + abstract only
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INTRODUCTIONDuring the unprecedented health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic it was suggested that obesity might aggravate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Therefore, this study aims to investigate the association between Compute Tomography (CT)-based measurements of visceral and subcutaneous fat as measures of obesity and COVID-19 severity. METHODS30 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 and a mean age of 65.59 {+/-} 13.06 years from a level one medical center...

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