Weight changes during pandemic-related shelter-in-place

What The Study Did:


Researchers investigated whether shelter-in-place orders in the United States during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with changes in body weight among adults.

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Gregory M. Marcus, M.D., M.A.S., of the University of California, San Francisco, is the corresponding author.

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