Obesity ‑ a risk factor for increased COVID‑19 prevalence, severity and lethality (Review)
- Authors:
- Demetrios Petrakis
- Denisa Margină
- Konstantinos Tsarouhas
- Fotios Tekos
- Miriana Stan
- Dragana Nikitovic
- Demetrios Kouretas
- Demetrios A. Spandidos
- Aristidis Tsatsakis
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Affiliations: Laboratory of Toxicology, Medical School, University of Crete, 71409 Heraklion, Greece, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Biochemistry, 020956 Bucharest, Romania, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Larissa, 41110 Larissa, Greece, Department of Biochemistry‑Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larissa, Greece, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology, 020956 Bucharest, Romania, Laboratory of Histology‑Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Medical School, University of Crete, 71110 Heraklion, Greece - Published online on: May 5, 2020 https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2020.11127
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Copyright: © Petrakis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.
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