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Risk factors for severe SARS-CoV-2 infection.
| Overweight |
| Black ethnicity |
| Diabetes mellitus |
| Hypertension |
| Chronic heart failure |
| Male |
Table depicting major risks factors for severe COVID-19, all of them linked to a baseline situation at risk linked to increased level ACE2 and/or baseline imbalance in ACE/ACE2 index. Clockwise from the top, these include being overweight, patients of Black ethnicity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiac failure, and male gender.
