June 2020

ENDOCRINOLOGY

COVID-19 AND OBESITY

Featuring: Robert Kushner, MD, FACP

Episode Summary

Robert Kushner, MD, FACP, professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, discusses the risk obesity plays in developing severe symptoms or hospitalization of COVID-19, during a recent Northwestern Medicine Grand Rounds held on April 28, 2020. He reviews three recent published studies examining BMI and severe symptoms and hospitalization from COVID-19, as well as some of the challenges of treating obese patients in the ICU.

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