Commentary: COVID-19 and obesity pandemics converge into a syndemic requiring urgent and multidisciplinary action

MA Hill, JR Sowers, CS Mantzoros - Metabolism, 2021 - Elsevier
While substantial evidence points towards obesity and associated cardiometabolic disorders
being a major factor for poor outcomes in SARS-CoV2 infections (COVID-19), the complexity …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 and obesity: overlapping of two pandemics

MA Gammone, N D'Orazio - Obesity Facts, 2021 - karger.com
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has recently led to
worldwide research efforts to identify subjects at greater risk of developing more severe …

[HTML][HTML] Reviving the mutual impact of SARS-COV-2 and obesity on patients: From morbidity to mortality

T Behl, S Kumar, S Singh, S Bhatia, A Albarrati… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Obesity-related metabolic dysfunction, endothelium imbalance, chronic inflammation,
immune dysregulation, and its comorbidities may all have a role in systemic inflammation …

The dual pandemics of COVID-19 and obesity: bidirectional impact

N Kapoor, S Kalra, W Al Mahmeed, K Al-Rasadi… - Diabetes Therapy, 2022 - Springer
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for the
COVID-19 pandemic, has been shown to disrupt many organ systems in the human body …

Obesity and COVID‐19: A jigsaw puzzle with still missing pieces

K Michalakis, G Panagiotou, I Ilias… - Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Apart from posing various mechanical and medical issues compromising general health,
obesity is a major factor for respiratory tract infections, due to specific inflammation and …

Understanding the co-epidemic of obesity and COVID-19: current evidence, comparison with previous epidemics, mechanisms, and preventive and therapeutic …

M Dalamaga, GS Christodoulatos, I Karampela… - Current obesity …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose of Review A growing body of evidence suggests that obesity and increased visceral
adiposity are strongly and independently linked to adverse outcomes and death due to …

Obesity pandemic during COVID-19 outbreak: Narrative review and future considerations

E Cava, B Neri, MG Carbonelli, S Riso, S Carbone - Clinical nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
The high prevalence of obesity and obesity-related comorbidities has reached pandemic
proportions, particularly in Western countries. Obesity increases the risk to develop several …

SARS-CoV-2-host dynamics: Increased risk of adverse outcomes of COVID-19 in obesity

R Yadav, S Aggarwal, A Singh - Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and aim The pandemic of COVID-19 has put forward the public health system
across countries to prepare themselves for the unprecedented outbreak of the present time …

COVID-19 and obesity: epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment

X Zhu, L Yang, K Huang - Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The growing prevalence of overweight and obesity has been a worldwide public health
issue. During the COVID-19 pandemic, obesity is associated with a higher risk of severity …

Obesity, diabetes and COVID-19: an infectious disease spreading from the east collides with the consequences of an unhealthy western lifestyle

JMP Holly, K Biernacka, N Maskell… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The pandemic of COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has had a global
impact not seen for an infectious disease for over a century. This acute pandemic has …