SynthesisJournal of medical virology2021
Obesity aggravates COVID-19: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 146 citations in OpenAlex.
- Risk of bias and certainty of evidence on the association between obesity and mortality in patients with SARS-COV-2: An umbrella review of meta-analyses.Clinical nutrition ESPEN · 2023Pooled it
- Recent Advance Analysis of Recovery in Hospitalized People with COVID-19: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Obesity augments the disease burden in COVID-19: Updated data from an umbrella review.Clinical obesity · 2022Pooled it
- Obesity and periodontitis: A systematic review and updated meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Pooled it
- Association of Obesity With COVID-19 Severity and Mortality: An Updated Systemic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Pooled it
- Pre-existing health conditions and severe COVID-19 outcomes: an umbrella review approach and meta-analysis of global evidence.BMC medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Obesity aggravates COVID-19: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of medical virology · 2021Pooled it
- COVID-19 infection and body weight: A deleterious liaison in a J-curve relationship.Obesity research & clinical practicePooled it
- Influence of Excess Weight on the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Hospitalization: A Case-Control Study in a Rural Area of Spain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Consideration of Cardiovascular Morbidities in the Relationship between Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Individual-Level Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2025Article
- Care at home for remdesivir treatment of COVID-19: a survey study of patient and physician experiences.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Elevated risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes among underweight patients in Japan: A national registry-based study.Global health & medicine · 2025Article
- Association of obesity on short- and long-term survival in patients with moderate to severe pneumonia-related ARDS: a retrospective cohort study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Elevated GFI1 in Alveolar Macrophages Suppresses ACOD1 Expression and Exacerbates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Lung Injury in Obesity.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- The EPICOVID19-BS study: a web-based epidemiological survey in bariatric patients.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2025Observational
- The effect of pre-existing sarcopenia on outcomes of critically ill patients treated for COVID-19.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2025Article
- Metabolic health is more strongly associated with the severity and mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 than obesity.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- Risk of COVID-19 infection and seizure exacerbation among patients with epilepsy during the peak of Omicron wave.Epilepsia open · 2024Article
- Impact Of body Mass Index on Cardiopulmonary Outcomes of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Complicated by Severe Sepsis.Obesity pillars · 2024Article
- Functional Aspects of the Obesity Paradox in Patients with Severe Coronavirus Disease-2019: A Retrospective, Multicenter Study.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2024Article
23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
This review aimed to evaluate the impact of obesity on the onset, exacerbation, and mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); and compare the effects of different degrees of obesity. PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science were searched to find articles published between December 1, 2019, and July 27, 2020. Only observational studies with specific obesity definition were included. Literature screening and data extraction were conducted simultaneously by two researchers. A random-effects model was used to merge the effect quantity. Sensitivity analysis, subgroup analysis, and meta-regression analysis were used to deal with the heterogeneity among studies. Forty-one studies with 219,543 subjects and 115,635 COVID-19 patients were included. Subjects with obesity were more likely to have positive SARS-CoV-2 test results (OR = 1.50; 95% CI: 1.37-1.63, I
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