Summary of preliminary data about obesity and severity of COVID-19

(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) In a Nature Reviews Endocrinology 'Comment' authors from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), the Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health call for more research about the relationships of obesity, disproportionate fat distribution and impaired metabolic health with the severity of COVID-19.