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cord-351722-3mw1te94	Recalde, M.	Characteristics and outcomes of 627 044 COVID-19 patients with and without obesity in the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom	2020-09-03		.txt	text/plain	5299	324	55	Obese COVID-19 patients were more likely to have prior comorbidities, present with cardiovascular and respiratory events during hospitalization, require intensive services, or die compared to non-obese COVID-19 patients. In the diagnosed cohorts, obese patients with COVID-19 consistently had a higher prevalence of comorbidities compared to non-obese patients (upper part of Figure 1 . As in the diagnosed cohort, hospitalized obese patients with COVID-19 had a higher prevalence of comorbidities than non-obese; however, the differences between groups were less obvious (lower part of Figure 1 Although obese COVID-19 patients were younger and less likely to have comorbidities than obese influenza patients in the hospitalized cohorts, they more frequently had adverse outcomes. We provide novel evidence that the prevalence of obesity is higher among COVID-19 patients compared to those with seasonal influenza and that obese hospitalized COVID-19 patients have worse outcomes is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in (which was not certified by peer review) preprint	./cache/cord-351722-3mw1te94.txt	./txt/cord-351722-3mw1te94.txt