Obesity and respiratory infections: Does excess adiposity weigh down host defense?
- 31 August 2013
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- Vol. 26 (4), 412-419
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pupt.2012.04.006
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