Ana Flávia Santos Linhares

Obesity exacerbates cardiac oxidative stress and fibrosis upon coronavirus infection.

Coronavirus diseases, particularly COVID-19, been associated with cardiac injury. Given that obesity is a well-known risk factor for severe cases with poorer outcomes, we hypothesized that cardiac involvement in a murine betacoronavirus infection would be exacerbated in pre-obese mice. To test this hypothesis, we fed m...