June 2020 COVID-19 AND OBESITYFeaturing: Robert Kushner, MD, FACP
Episode SummaryRobert 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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