key: cord-0874865-w9ry48sh
authors: Speakman, John R.
title: Impact of obesity on COVID‐19‐related mortality: A comment on estimates in Popkin et al 2020
date: 2021-05-05
journal: Obes Rev
DOI: 10.1111/obr.13250
sha: f52fc99eb459a0925c82dea10d25b71c7185c64c
doc_id: 874865
cord_uid: w9ry48sh

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been unprecedented in the speed at which information has emerged regarding potential risk factors. In late March/early April, only 3 months after the pandemic started, it emerged from early analyses that one such factor might be obesity status. 1 Popkin et al. 2 The four papers in question were Goyal et al., 4 Shah et al., 5 Kim et al. 6 and ICARNS. 7 The latter was presumably a typo for ICNARC.

The ICNARC report for July 2020 includes a Cox-proportional hazard ratio plot for mortality that clearly shows the hazard ratio increases 

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