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cord-301833-q8jiep32	Peres, Karina Colombera	Body Mass Index and Prognosis of COVID-19 Infection. A Systematic Review	2020-08-14		.txt	text/plain	3691	234	48	Nine studies (two prospective cohorts, four retrospective cohorts and three cross-sectional) were included and assessed the relationship between obesity and COVID-19 prognosis. Most of the included studies showed some degree of association to: (a) higher BMI and worse clinical presentation and (b) obesity and need of hospitalization. Based on limited methodological quality studies, obesity seems to predict poor clinical evolution in patients with COVID-19. Herein, we perform a systematic review in order to evaluate if overweight and obesity may predict poor outcome in patients with COVID-19. We reviewed data from 17,568 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, included in nine studies. Most of these studies highlighted some level of association between obesity and disease severity, encompassing hospitalization rate, admission to ICU, invasive ventilation need and mortality. Once younger patients generally do not represent higher risk for a severe presentation of COVID-19, authors suggest that obesity may be an unrecognized risk factor for hospital care.	./cache/cord-301833-q8jiep32.txt	./txt/cord-301833-q8jiep32.txt