Obesity in the COVID era: A global health challenge. / Obesidad en tiempos de COVID-19. Un desafío de salud global.
Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr (Engl Ed)
; 68(2): 123-129, 2021 Feb.
Article
in English, Spanish
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1065062
ABSTRACT
Obesity is a chronic disease that leads to an increased risk of mortality and morbidity, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may create a new health challenge. There is clear evidence showing that some biological and social factors associated with obesity involve an increased risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and greater severity compared to people with normal weight. Undoubtedly, obesity involves a low-grade proinflammatory state that produces a dysregulation of the immune system that compromises its ability to respond to respiratory infection by COVID-19 and so produces a worsening of the disease. In this review, the main epidemiological and pathophysiological data that associate obesity with COVID-19 are described.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Obesity, Morbid
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
/
Spanish
Journal:
Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr (Engl Ed)
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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