Our new research suggests 63% of US hospitalizations for COVID may have been prevented, due to less severe illness, if we had a metabolically healthy population. Biggest risk: obesity, responsible for 30% of excess hospitalizations. https://t.co/no8YhACf4E pic.twitter.com/4VPuHT0OPd

— Dariush Mozaffarian (@Dmozaffarian) February 25, 2021