Seropositivity of selected chronic infections and different measures of obesity.

The impact of sex-specific body fat distribution on the susceptibility to five chronic infections, helicobacter pylori and human herpesviruses 3 to 6 (i.e. varicella-zoster, Epstein-Barr, cytomegalo- and human herpesvirus 6), has not previously been examined. In the present study, seropositivity was...

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Main Authors: Dennis Freuer, Jakob Linseisen, Tim Waterboer, Frank Pessler, Carlos Alberto Guzmán, Nina Wawro, Annette Peters, Christa Meisinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231974