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authors: Santos de Sousa Fernandes, Matheus; Jurema Santos, Gabriela Carvalho
title: Comment on “Association-19 of body mass index with COVID-19 related in-hospital death” Clinical Nutrition 2022
date: 2022-04-29
journal: Clin Nutr
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2022.04.027
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doc_id: 1012771
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Second, we highlight the heterogeneity of the sample. The interference of different 20 sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone) on anthropometric variables 21 including BMI is widely known, which can lead to different health and disease outcomes.

The performance of retrospective studies in cohorts with assessment of the sexes 23 separately and of sex hormone levels, can help in the broad understanding of the possible 24 association with BMI and mortality from COVID-19 in these subjects [4, 5] . 

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