Factors associated with COVID-19: is obesity associated with a higher risk of adverse outcomes?
Vanessa Jordan
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1 Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Grafton Campus, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
* Correspondence to: v.jordan@auckland.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 15(2) 190-191 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23061
Published: 19 June 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
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