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Obesity and COVID-19: What are the Consequences?

Obesity is an increasing health problem all over the world. In combination with the current COVID-19 pandemic, this has turned into a massive challenge as individuals with overweight and obesity at all ages show a significant increase in their risk of getting severe COVID-19. Around 20% of all patie...

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Autores principales: Steenblock, Charlotte, Hassanein, Mohamed, Khan, Emran G., Yaman, Mohamad, Kamel, Margrit, Barbir, Mahmoud, Lorke, Dietrich E., Everett, Dean, Bejtullah, Saqipi, Lohmann, Tobias, Lindner, Uwe, Tahirukaj, Ermal, Jirjees, Feras Jassim, Soliman, Sameh S.M., Quitter, Friederike, Bornstein, Stefan R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9427204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35724688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1878-9757
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author Steenblock, Charlotte
Hassanein, Mohamed
Khan, Emran G.
Yaman, Mohamad
Kamel, Margrit
Barbir, Mahmoud
Lorke, Dietrich E.
Everett, Dean
Bejtullah, Saqipi
Lohmann, Tobias
Lindner, Uwe
Tahirukaj, Ermal
Jirjees, Feras Jassim
Soliman, Sameh S.M.
Quitter, Friederike
Bornstein, Stefan R.
author_facet Steenblock, Charlotte
Hassanein, Mohamed
Khan, Emran G.
Yaman, Mohamad
Kamel, Margrit
Barbir, Mahmoud
Lorke, Dietrich E.
Everett, Dean
Bejtullah, Saqipi
Lohmann, Tobias
Lindner, Uwe
Tahirukaj, Ermal
Jirjees, Feras Jassim
Soliman, Sameh S.M.
Quitter, Friederike
Bornstein, Stefan R.
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description Obesity is an increasing health problem all over the world. In combination with the current COVID-19 pandemic, this has turned into a massive challenge as individuals with overweight and obesity at all ages show a significant increase in their risk of getting severe COVID-19. Around 20% of all patients that were hospitalized for COVID-19 suffered from obesity alone, whereas obesity in combination with other metabolic comorbidities, such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension, account for up to 60% of all hospitalizations in relation to COVID-19. Therefore, it is of immense importance to put the spotlight on the high incidence of obesity present already in childhood both by changing the individual minds and by encouraging politicians and the whole society to commence preventive interventions for achieving a better nutrition for all social classes all over the world. In the current review, we aim to explain the different pathways and mechanisms that are responsible for the increased risk of severe COVID-19 in people with overweight and obesity. Furthermore, we discuss how the pandemic has led to weight gains in many people during lockdown. At the end, we discuss the importance of preventing such an interface between a non-communicable disease like obesity and a communicable disease like COVID-19 in the future.
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spelling pubmed-94272042022-08-31 Obesity and COVID-19: What are the Consequences? Steenblock, Charlotte Hassanein, Mohamed Khan, Emran G. Yaman, Mohamad Kamel, Margrit Barbir, Mahmoud Lorke, Dietrich E. Everett, Dean Bejtullah, Saqipi Lohmann, Tobias Lindner, Uwe Tahirukaj, Ermal Jirjees, Feras Jassim Soliman, Sameh S.M. Quitter, Friederike Bornstein, Stefan R. Horm Metab Res Obesity is an increasing health problem all over the world. In combination with the current COVID-19 pandemic, this has turned into a massive challenge as individuals with overweight and obesity at all ages show a significant increase in their risk of getting severe COVID-19. Around 20% of all patients that were hospitalized for COVID-19 suffered from obesity alone, whereas obesity in combination with other metabolic comorbidities, such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension, account for up to 60% of all hospitalizations in relation to COVID-19. Therefore, it is of immense importance to put the spotlight on the high incidence of obesity present already in childhood both by changing the individual minds and by encouraging politicians and the whole society to commence preventive interventions for achieving a better nutrition for all social classes all over the world. In the current review, we aim to explain the different pathways and mechanisms that are responsible for the increased risk of severe COVID-19 in people with overweight and obesity. Furthermore, we discuss how the pandemic has led to weight gains in many people during lockdown. At the end, we discuss the importance of preventing such an interface between a non-communicable disease like obesity and a communicable disease like COVID-19 in the future. Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2022-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9427204/ /pubmed/35724688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1878-9757 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial-License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hassanein, Mohamed
Khan, Emran G.
Yaman, Mohamad
Kamel, Margrit
Barbir, Mahmoud
Lorke, Dietrich E.
Everett, Dean
Bejtullah, Saqipi
Lohmann, Tobias
Lindner, Uwe
Tahirukaj, Ermal
Jirjees, Feras Jassim
Soliman, Sameh S.M.
Quitter, Friederike
Bornstein, Stefan R.
Obesity and COVID-19: What are the Consequences?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35724688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1878-9757
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