Background
obesity, infection
OBESITY, DISEASE, INFECTION, CORONAVIRUS, SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME, COMPLICATIONS
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV2) infection, which emerged as a global pandemic towards the end of 2019 [Various modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors have been associated with higher susceptibility to severe COVID-19 and its complications. Prominently, several cross-sectional examinations from the early phase of the pandemic found that older adults and those with obesity were typically vulnerable to severe infection [