Crimson Publishers Publish With Us Reprints e-Books Video articles

Abstract

Interventions in Obesity & Diabetes

Obesity and COVID-19 Are We Looking for Simple or Sophisticated Causes?

  • Open or CloseKarel Kubát*

    Department of Internal Medicine, Litomerice Hospital, Litomerice, Czech Republic

    *Corresponding author:Karel Kubát, Department of Internal Medicine, Litomerice Hospital, Litomerice, Czech Republic

Submission: June 05, 2020Published: June 15, 2020

DOI: 10.31031/IOD.2020.04.000584

ISSN : 2578-0263
Volume4 Issue2

Abstract

High mortality from COVID-19 is in the group of patients suffering from malnutrition. People with severe diseases such as tumors, patients with heart failure, kidney failure, liver and other organ damage are at risk. COVID-19 was a particular problem for older people, and a resistance to social distancing and sheltering [1]. However, people with obesity and people with obesity and diabetes mellitus are also at risk. In the May issue of the prestigious Lancet magazine, the authors Kass DA, et al. [2] bring irrefutable data obtained by monitoring a large number of patients [2].

Get access to the full text of this article