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cord-305632-xbji6g5x	Uccelli, Matteo	COVID-19 and Obesity: Is Bariatric Surgery Protective? Retrospective Analysis on 2145 Patients Undergone Bariatric-Metabolic Surgery from High Volume Center in Italy (Lombardy)	2020-10-31		.txt	text/plain	2889	167	49	There are also emerging data indicating that obesity is an independent predictor of intensive care unit (ICU) admission, mechanical ventilation, and death [6, 11, 12] , and in a recent report from a large cohort of COVID-19 patients in New York, obesity was found to be one of the most common associated comorbidities in hospitalized patients [13, 14] . We therefore analyzed a significant number of patients to evaluate the spread and the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 infection in a population of patients who had undergone bariatric surgery. Therefore, our data are encouraging, considering that these patients were obese: bariatric surgery and the consequent weight loss seem to significantly lower the risk of serious consequences due to COVID infection. Bariatric surgery, therefore, can be considered a protective factor with respect to the onset of severe respiratory disease resulting from infection with SARS-CoV-2.	./cache/cord-305632-xbji6g5x.txt	./txt/cord-305632-xbji6g5x.txt