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DIABETES
Volume 69, Issue 9, Pages 1857-1863Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/dbi19-0023
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health [DK074970, DK107444]
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Award [BX003725]
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel threat that seems to result from the collusion between a new pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and an existing pandemic of metabolic disease driven by obesity. This Perspective explores the evolving epidemiological, clinical, biological, and molecular evidence to propose an unfolding paradigm in which old age, chronic metabolic disease (such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome), and male biological sex produce a deadly symbiosis of dysregulated immunometabolism and chronic systemic inflammation that intensifies virally induced hyperinflammation associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. It is intended to inspire new research directions and stimulate funding in this field.
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