Elevated body mass index is associated with delayed protective airway mucosal immune responses in mild SARS-CoV-2 infection
This work is supported by the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections, Imperial College London in partnership with the UK Health Security Agency (Grant number: NIHR200927; AL) and the Medical Research Council (Grant number: MR/X004058/1). Infrastructure support for this research was provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
Authors
- Kieran Madon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-2560)
- Myra O. McClure (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5494-407X)
- Neil M. Ferguson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1154-8093)
- Robert Varro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5526-225X)
- Simon Dustan
- Seran Hakki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0554-339X)
- Jessica Cutajar
- Anika Singanayagam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-0173)
- Aleksandra Koycheva
- Timesh D Pillay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8608-8880)
- Emily Conibear (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3445-6992)
- John S. Tregoning (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8093-8741)
- Patricia Watber
- Harriet Catchpole
- Chitra Tejpal
- Sarah Hammett
- Federica Marchesin
- John Dunning (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2171-4055)
- Kristel Timcang
- Jakob Jonnerby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7862-8645)
- Ajit Lalvani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2396-246X)
- Eimear McDermott
- Anjeli V Ketkar
- Samuel Bremang
- Megan Davies (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1795-177X)
- Lucy Mosscrop (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1010-7824)
- Alexandra L Kondratiuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9134-5009)
- Samuel Baldwin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1838-1319)
- Paul S. Freemont (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5658-8486)
- Janakan Sam Narean (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9572-9501)
- Anjna Badhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7375-0433)
- Eleanor Parker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9898-8568)
- Valerie Quinn
- Mica Tolosa-Wright (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3501-9786)
- Carolina Rosadas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3922-5667)
- Constanta Luca
- Lulu Wang
- Rhia Kundu
- Joe Fenn
- Hamish Houston
- Nieves Derqui
- Sean Nevin
- Samuel Evetts
- Wendy S. Barclay
- Jada Samuel
- Giulia Miserocchi
- Jack L. Barnett
- Jie Zhou
- Isaac J. Day Weber
- Richard Tedder
- Graham Taylor
- Maria Zambon
Institutions
- University of Oxford (GB)
- NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- EBioMedicine
- Published
- 2026-03-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2026.106215
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00