BMI and future risk for COVID-19 infection and death across sex, age and ethnicity: Preliminary findings from UK biobank

Aims: We examined the link between BMI and risk of a positive test for SARS-CoV-2 and risk of COVID19-related death among UK Biobank participants. Methods: Among 4855 participants tested for SARS-CoV-2 in hospital, 839 were positive and of these 189 died from COVID-19. Poisson models with penalised...

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Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:

2020

Institución:

Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano

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Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo

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eng

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oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/13919

Acceso en línea:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.060
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/13919

Palabra clave:

Body mass index
COVID-19
Obesity
Síndrome respiratorio agudo grave
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
Coronavirus

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