American Society for Microbiology: Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome are Risk Factors for Severe Influenza, COVID-19
July 16, 2020
July 16, 2020
WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The American Society for Microbiology issued the following news release:
Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of severe disease from viral infection, according to a review of the literature performed by a team of researchers from St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, both in Memphis. The research appears this week in the Journal of Virology, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology . . .
Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of severe disease from viral infection, according to a review of the literature performed by a team of researchers from St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, both in Memphis. The research appears this week in the Journal of Virology, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology . . .