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cord-268470-dgxn32ls	Sharma, Abhishek	Obesity is Associated with More Critical Illness in COVID-19	2020-07-02		.txt	text/plain	933	66	59	To the Editor: In follow-up to recent major state-of-the-art review on Obesity and Outcomes in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), 1 we have additional data regarding the relationship of obesity with outcomes in patients with COVID-19. We performed a rapid review and meta-analysis to evaluate whether obesity is associated with worse outcomes in patients with COVID-19. The following key words were used for search in different combinations: "Coronavirus 2019", "Covid-19", "SARS-CoV2", "Obesity", "Body mass index", and "Outcomes". The primary outcome was critical illness In this rapid review and meta-analysis, obesity was associated with a 39% increased risk of critical illness, defined by individual study protocol as ICU admission, need for IMV, or hospice admission or death. Despite these study limitations, however, our data of a 39% increase in worse outcomes associated with obesity strongly supports the recent paper in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with COVID-19 disease in New York City	./cache/cord-268470-dgxn32ls.txt	./txt/cord-268470-dgxn32ls.txt