Open AccessOverweight: A risk factor for COVID-19 --- A medical conundrum or a reality?
Author(s) -
ManinderP. S. Pardal,
Rajiva Rajiva,
DharamjeetS Faujdar,
Saurabh Bobdey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_889_21
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , covid-19 , population , obesity , demography , risk factor , pandemic , environmental health , disease , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Obesity may contribute to the initiation, progression, transmission, and deterioration of COVID-19. However, there was lack of such studies carried out by Indian workers.