Open AccessBody Mass Index and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis, Hospitalization, and Death: A Cohort Study of 2 524 926 Catalans
Author(s) -
Martina Recalde,
Andrea Pistillo,
Sergio Fernández-Bertolín,
Elena Roel,
María Aragón,
Heinz Freisling,
Daniel PrietoAlhambra,
Edward Burn,
Talita DuarteSalles
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism/journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/clinem/dgab546
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , hazard ratio , population , cohort , covid-19 , cohort study , pediatrics , disease , confidence interval , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty)
A comprehensive understanding of the association between body mass index (BMI) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is still lacking.