> probably the same thing These things, which are usually things like diabetes, blood sugar problems, high blood pressure, elevated cortisol and so on, do corr

> probably the same thing These things, which are usually things like diabetes, blood sugar problems, high blood pressure, elevated cortisol and so on, do correlate with poorer COVID outcomes. My understanding is that, even when you control for these factors, outcomes for obese patients are still below what we would expect to see. This means that there is still a contributing factor that we haven't considered yet, and the parent study hypothesizes one possible reason.