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Diabetes, obesity, metabolism, and SARS-CoV-2 infection: the end of the beginning.

Daniel J. Drucker
- 02 Mar 2021 - 
- Vol. 33, Iss: 3, pp 479-498
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The increased prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors in people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 illness has engendered considerable interest in the metabolic aspects of SARS-CoV-2-induced pathophysiology as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Cell Metabolism.The article was published on 2021-03-02 and is currently open access. It has received 145 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Diabetes mellitus.

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Female gender is associated with long COVID syndrome: a prospective cohort study

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Immune cell-mediated features of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

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Diabetes Epidemiology in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

TL;DR: It is argued that the COVID-19 pandemic is a defining moment for the field of epidemiology and that diabetes epidemiology should play a significant role and opportunities for future epidemiologic studies are discussed.
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Obesity as a risk factor for COVID-19 mortality in women and men in the UK Biobank: comparisons with influenza/pneumonia and coronary heart disease

TL;DR: It is shown that the relative effects of a higher BMI on COVID‐19 mortality may be stronger in women than men and that the association between higher BMI and the risk of influenza/pneumonia death in men is similar between the sexes.
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EFFECT oF STATIN THERAPY oN SARS-CoV-2 INFECTION-RELATED.

TL;DR: A lower SARS-CoV-2 infection-related mortality was observed in patients treated with statin therapy prior to hospitalization and Statin therapy should not be discontinued due to the global concern of the pandemic or in patients hospitalized for COVID-19.
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