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cord-304018-1fxjdl1m	Peters, Sanne A.E.	Obesity as a risk factor for COVID‐19 mortality in women and men in the UK Biobank: comparisons with influenza/pneumonia and coronary heart disease	2020-09-23		.txt	text/plain	1992	100	56	Cox regression was used to estimate the sex-specific hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for mortality from COVID-19, influenza/pneumonia and CHD for overweight and obesity (defined as a body mass index [BMI] ≥25 to <30kg/m² and ≥30kg/m², respectively) and an overall 1-standard deviation (SD) increase in BMI (SD: 4.8), waist circumference (SD: 13.5), waist-to-hip ratio (SD: 0.09), and waist-to-height ratio (SD: 0.08). This population-based study of over 500,000 women and men in the UK Biobank shows that higher levels of adiposity measures were associated with a higher risk of death from COVID-19, of an order of magnitude similar to that seen for other respiratory diseases and CHD. Table 1 Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) and women-to-men ratios of HRs with 95% confidence intervals for death from COVID-19, influenza/pneumonia, or coronary heart disease associated with body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist-to-height ratio Analyses are adjusted for age, Townsend index, smoking status, and ethnicity.	./cache/cord-304018-1fxjdl1m.txt	./txt/cord-304018-1fxjdl1m.txt