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    The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted immunocompromised patients. This diverse group is at increased risk for impaired vaccine responses, progression to severe disease, prolonged hospitalizations and deaths. At particular risk are people with deficiencies in lymphocyte number or function such as transplant recipients and those with hematologic malignancies. Such patients’ immune…

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    According to the World Obesity Federation, obesity is a chronic, relapsing, progressive disease.1 This view of obesity, however, is not without controversy. Opinions range from “fat acceptance activists”, who argue that the health impact of excess body fat are exaggerated and a cover for cultural and aesthetic prejudices against people who live in large bodies, to the Health At Every Size (HAES®)…

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    • Does this person have #obesity? “the clinical diagnosis of obesity should be based on a comprehensive clinical assessment of the patient to determine the presence of health impairments likely to improve with effective obesity management” @DrSharma https://t.co/noXY6NFd72 https://t.co/JFfjhjseJW