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Highlights Critically ill Covid-19 patients with type-2 diabetes show decreased survival rate. Obese critically ill Covid-19 pneumonia patients are more often of younger age. Non-obese Covid-19 pneumonia survivors are older than obese survivors. Age and cardiovascular disease in Covid-19 patients are not related to early death.

Resection through a thoracic approach is the appropriate treatment for a P-ITG. Surgical intervention is usually indicated without delay upon the establishment of the diagnosis because these goiters exhibit progressive growth. When P-ITGs are small, this approach should prevent the development of tracheomalacia and other serious complications.