Obesity impairs the adaptive immune response to influenza virus

WD Green, MA Beck - Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2017 - atsjournals.org
Influenza, a highly contagious respiratory tract infection, affects millions of adults and
children each year. Several high-risk populations include children, the elderly, the …

Review of infective dose, routes of transmission and outcome of COVID-19 caused by the SARS-COV-2: comparison with other respiratory viruses

S Karimzadeh, R Bhopal, NT Huy - Epidemiology & infection, 2021 - cambridge.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is pandemic. Prevention
and control strategies require an improved understanding of SARS-CoV-2 dynamics. We did …

Association of obesity with disease severity among patients with coronavirus disease 2019

M Kalligeros, F Shehadeh, EK Mylona, G Benitez… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aim of this study was to explore the potential association of obesity and other
chronic diseases with severe outcomes, such as intensive care unit (ICU) admission and …

Association of body mass index and age with morbidity and mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: results from the American Heart Association COVID-19 …

NS Hendren, JA De Lemos, C Ayers, SR Das, A Rao… - Circulation, 2021 - ahajournals.org
Background: Obesity may contribute to adverse outcomes in coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19). However, studies of large, broadly generalizable patient populations are …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics and predictors of death among 4035 consecutively hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Spain

J Berenguer, P Ryan, J Rodriguez-Bano, I Jarrín… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives To analyse the characteristics and predictors of death in hospitalized patients
with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Spain. Methods A retrospective observational …

Infectious virus in exhaled breath of symptomatic seasonal influenza cases from a college community

J Yan, M Grantham, J Pantelic… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Little is known about the amount and infectiousness of influenza virus shed into exhaled
breath. This contributes to uncertainty about the importance of airborne influenza …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention and control of seasonal influenza with vaccines: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices—United States, 2019–20 …

LA Grohskopf - MMWR. Recommendations and Reports, 2019 - cdc.gov
This report updates the 2018–19 recommendations of the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the use of seasonal influenza vaccines in the …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention and control of seasonal influenza with vaccines

LA Grohskopf - MMWR. Recommendations and Reports, 2016 - cdc.gov
This report updates the 2015–16 recommendations of the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the use of seasonal influenza vaccines (Grohskopf …

Obesity and ageing: Two sides of the same coin

BT Tam, JA Morais, S Santosa - Obesity Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Conditions and comorbidities of obesity mirror those of ageing and age‐related diseases.
Obesity and ageing share a similar spectrum of phenotypes such as compromised genomic …

Obesity and the risk and outcome of infection

R Huttunen, J Syrjänen - International journal of obesity, 2013 - nature.com
The interactions between obesity and infectious diseases have recently received increasing
recognition as emerging data have indicated an association between obesity and poor …