Obesity as a risk factor for COVID-19: an overview

Autor(es)

Alberca, Ricardo Wesley ^[1] ; Oliveira, Luana de Mendonca ^[2] ; Branco, Anna Claudia Calvielli Castelo ^[2] ; Pereira, Natalli Zanete ^[1] ; Sato, Maria Notomi ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Lab Med Invest 56, Dept Dermatol, Fac Med, Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Biomed Sci, Dept Immunol, Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo de Revisão
• Fonte: CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION; v. 61, n. 13 JUN 2020.
• Citações Web of Science: 26

Resumo

The current coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presents a huge challenge for health-care systems worldwide. Many different risk factors are associated with disease severity, such as older age, diabetes, hypertension, and most recently obesity. The incidence of obesity has been on the rise for the past 25 years, reaching over 2 billion people throughout the world, and obesity itself could be considered a pandemic. In this review, we summarize aspects involved with obesity, such as changes in the immune response, nutritional factors, physiological factors, and the gut-lung axis, that impact the viral response and the COVID-19 prognosis. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 19/02679-7 - Efeito da suplementação com antioxidante materna e paterna em processo inflamatório pulmonar da prole de camundongos
• Beneficiário: Ricardo Wesley Alberca Custódio
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado