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cord-351223-nnuoadh6	Pettit, Natasha N.	Obesity is Associated with Increased Risk for Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID‐19	2020-06-26		.txt	text/plain	1891	132	52	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Early reports from Chinese series identified hypertension, diabetes, chronic pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular disease as the comorbidities most consistently associated with hospitalization, respiratory support, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and death in COVID-19 patients. Subsequent reports from the United States and Europe suggested that patients with a higher body mass index (BMI) are at greater risk for hospital admission and severe disease requiring respiratory support. Secondary analyses included assessing the association of BMI group with oxygen requirement upon hospital admission, length of stay, ICU admission at any point, and mechanical ventilation at any point. Our study shows that amongst hospitalized patients with COVID-19 infection, obesity was significantly associated with mortality after adjusting for age, gender, and other comorbidities. This finding provides further evidence that obesity is a key comorbidity in COVID-19 that may not only predict severe disease requiring hospital admission, oxygen supplementation, or mechanical ventilation, but may also predict increased mortality.	./cache/cord-351223-nnuoadh6.txt	./txt/cord-351223-nnuoadh6.txt