Obesity is a potential risk factor for covid-19 associated morbidity and mortality in urban Bangladesh

Tan and colleagues investigate the link between obesity and covid-19.1 Rates of overweight and obesity—a pre-eminent public health problem of the modern world—are growing in Bangladesh,2 and are probably an underlying factor in the high rate of covid-19 associated morbidity and mortality in the country. By 19 June, 90 619 covid-19 cases have been identified,3 mostly concentrated in urban areas.4 …