Study reveals new factor associated with the risk of severe COVID-19 in people with obesity

Pedro Moraes-Vieira participated on June 30 in a panel discussion on health and biomedicine at FAPESP Week China in Shenzhen. Credit: Karina Toledo At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of Brazilian researchers showed why SARS-CoV-2 infection tends to be more severe in diabetic patients. Now, the same team based at the Institute of Biology of the State University of Campinas (IB-UNICAMP) has discovered one of the reasons why obese people who do not have diabetes or even insulin resistance also have an increased risk of developing the Read More

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