Open AccessObese communities among the best predictors of COVID-19-related deaths
Author(s) -
Antoine AbdelMassih,
Ramy Ghaly,
Abeer Amin,
Amr Gaballah,
Aya Kamel,
Bassant Heikal,
Esraa Menshawey,
Habiba-Allah Ismail,
Hend Hesham,
Josephine Attallah,
Kirollos Eshak,
Mai Moursi,
Mariam Khaled-Ibn-ElWalid,
Marwa M. R. Tawfik,
M. Alzahrani Tarek,
Mayan Mohy-El-Din,
M. Hadj Habib,
Nada Hafez,
Odette Bahnan,
Passant Ismail,
Sara Senoussy,
Sherry Ghaly,
Sousanna Farah,
Rafeef Hozaien,
Veronia Adel,
Mariam Lotfy Khaled
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cardiovascular endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.498
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 2574-0954
DOI - 10.1097/xce.0000000000000218
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , covid-19 , outbreak , obesity , gross domestic product , population , mortality rate , environmental health , disease , economics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economic growth , virology , sociology
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the largest outbreak to strike the world since the Spanish flu in 1918. Visual examination of the world map shows a wide variation of death tolls between countries. The main goal of our series is to determine the best predictors of such discrepancy.