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cord-325948-wszd7pq4	Bhasin, Ajay	Is BMI higher in younger patients with COVID‐19? Association between BMI and COVID‐19 hospitalization by age	2020-07-01		.txt	text/plain	1649	103	58	We were interested in understanding whether patients hospitalized with COVID‐19 differed in BMI at older versus younger ages, and if trends were independent of diabetes and hypertension. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) lists severe obesity [Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥ 40kg/m 2 ] as a risk factor for COVID-19. Recent studies suggest obesity is a risk factor for hospitalization of patients younger than 60 years with COVID-19 . 3 No studies have evaluated BMI as a function of age while controlling for DM and hypertension for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. We were interested in understanding whether patients hospitalized with COVID-19 differed in BMI at older versus younger ages, and among subgroups with and without DM and hypertension. In this cross-sectional study, patients less than 50 years old hospitalized with COVID-19 had significantly higher mean BMI and were more likely to have a higher class of obesity than patients over 50 years of age.	./cache/cord-325948-wszd7pq4.txt	./txt/cord-325948-wszd7pq4.txt