A 2022 update on the epidemiology of obesity and a call to action: as its twin COVID-19 pandemic appears to be receding, the obesity and dysmetabolism pandemic …

C Boutari, CS Mantzoros - Metabolism, 2022 - Elsevier
The WHO just released in May 2022 a report on the state of the obesity pandemic in Europe,
stating that 60% of citizens in the area of Europe are either overweight or obese, and …

[HTML][HTML] European association for the study of obesity position statement on the global COVID-19 pandemic

G Frühbeck, JL Baker, L Busetto, D Dicker… - Obesity facts, 2020 - karger.com
COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, was declared a
pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 12, 2020. The European Association …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity and COVID-19: the two sides of the coin

D Dicker, S Bettini, N Farpour-Lambert, G Frühbeck… - Obesity facts, 2020 - karger.com
Abstract The World Health Organization declared COVID-19, the infectious disease caused
by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, a pandemic on March 12, 2020. COVID-19 is causing …

Obesity as a risk factor for severe COVID-19: summary of the best evidence and implications for health care

N Sattar, J Valabhji - Current Obesity Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To collate the best evidence from several strands—
epidemiological, genetic, comparison with historical data and mechanistic information—and …

Update on the obesity epidemic: after the sudden rise, is the upward trajectory beginning to flatten?

C Koliaki, M Dalamaga, S Liatis - Current Obesity Reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To provide an update on current obesity prevalence trends and
summarize the available evidence suggesting a possible plateau or stabilization in obesity …

Individuals with obesity and COVID‐19: a global perspective on the epidemiology and biological relationships

BM Popkin, S Du, WD Green, MA Beck… - Obesity …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The linkage of individuals with obesity and COVID‐19 is controversial and lacks systematic
reviews. After a systematic search of the Chinese and English language literature on COVID …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] In the United States, obesity is so prevalent could it be described as a Pandemic?

N Tzenios, M Tazanios, M Chahine - 2022 - europepmc.org
In the United States, obesity is prevalent, and it could be described as a pandemic. Obesity
is excessive fat accumulation, leading to a BMI≥ 30 (Fruh, 2017). Surveys conducted by the …

[HTML][HTML] Will an obesity pandemic replace the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic?

A Ghanemi, M Yoshioka, J St-Amand - Medical Hypotheses, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With the current outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)[1], debates are taking
place around the consequences this pandemic would have on different aspects of the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID 19 and the patient with obesity–the editors speak out

DH Ryan, E Ravussin, S Heymsfield - Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The pandemic of COVID-19 is bringing public health to the forefront for all members of The
Obesity Society. COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and is thought to …