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Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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A: Representative images of abdominal-dominant obesity (apple-shaped) and subcutaneous-dominant obesity (pear-shaped). B: Kaplan–Meier plot of survival rate in COVID-19 patients during hospitalization. BMI; body mass index. VAT; visceral adipose tissue. C: Representative images of obese and lean mice and survival curve after SARS-CoV-2 inoculation. D: Representative images of obese ob/ob and lean ob/ob mice and survival curve after SARS-CoV-2 inoculation. Lean ob/ob mice were pre-treated with leptin for six weeks in advance to the infection.

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Department of Rheumatology, TMDU

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