Metabolic disorders, COVID-19 and vaccine-breakthrough infections

Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Published online: 06 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41574-021-00608-9Obesity and impaired metabolic health are important risk factors for severe COVID-19. Novel data indicate that these risk factors might also promote vaccine-breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in fully vaccinated people. Here, these relationships are discussed and post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 that are related to obesity and impaired metabolic health are addressed.
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