Obesity is a risk factor for greater COVID-19 severity

Accepted/In Press date: 8 April 2020

e-pub ahead of print date: 14 May 2020

Published date: 1 July 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: Acknowledgments. The authors thank Hong-Lei Ma (NAFLD Research Center, Department of Hepatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University) and Wen-Yue Liu (Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University) for data collection assistance. This work is a part of the PERSONS study. Funding. This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81500665) as well as funding from the Ruian Science and Technology Bureau (2020023), High Level Creative Talents from Department of Public Health in Zhejiang Province, and Project of New Century 551 Talent Nurturing in Wenzhou. G.T. is supported in part by grants from the School of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. C.D.B. is supported in part by the Southampton National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre (IS-BRC-20004), U.K. Duality of Interest. No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported. Author Contributions. F.G., K.I.Z., and M.-H.Z. contributed to study concept and design. X.-B.W., Q-F.S., K.-H.P., T.-Y.W., and Y.-P.C. contributed to acquisition of data. F.G. and K.I.Z. contributed to analysis and interpretation of data. F.G. and K.I.Z. drafted the manuscript. G.T., C.D.B., and J.G. critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content. M.-H.Z. supervised the study. All authors contributed to the manuscript for important intellectual content and approved the submission. M.-H.Z. is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Local EPrints ID: 439542

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439542

DOI: doi:10.2337/dc20-0682

ISSN: 1935-5548

PURE UUID: 75e635f9-da39-4268-8099-0e471e3148c7

ORCID for Christopher Byrne: orcid.org/0000-0001-6322-7753

Date deposited: 27 Apr 2020 16:30

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