Obesity and smoking as risk factors for invasive mechanical ventilation in COVID-19: A retrospective, observational cohort study

• Ana C. Monteiro ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: acostamonteiro@mednet.ucla.edu

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-4435

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• Rajat Suri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9025-7138

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• Iheanacho O. Emeruwa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Robert J. Stretch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0514-5925

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• Roxana Y. Cortes-Lopez,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Alexander Sherman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Catherine C. Lindsay,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Jennifer A. Fulcher,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9895-8636

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• David Goodman-Meza,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9382-3564

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• Anil Sapru,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Russell G. Buhr,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6159-7435

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• Steven Y. Chang,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Tisha Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tisha Wang, Nida Qadir

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Nida Qadir

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tisha Wang, Nida Qadir

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7791-049X

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