Obesity shapes COVID-19’s long-term damage (IMAGE)

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Obesity shapes COVID-19’s long-term damage

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A graph of nighttime activity in lean and obese animals over the entire time course of the study showing that all animals exhibited an increase in nighttime activity (equivalent to restlessness) after infection, but that this effect was greater in obese animals.

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Sauter KA, et al., 2025, PLOS Pathogens, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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