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Covid-19 and diabesity: when a pandemia cross another pandemia.

Authors :
Guarisco G
Leonetti F
Source :
Eating and weight disorders : EWD [Eat Weight Disord] 2021 Jun; Vol. 26 (5), pp. 1283-1286. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jul 14.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

The Covid-19 epidemic is having a strong impact on the population with pre-existing chronic diseases. The collision between the Covid-19 pandemic and the current diabesity epidemic has highlighted that obese and diabetic patients have a worse prognosis due to the impairment of the immune response to infections and due to the mechanical limits that make the management of the hospitalized patients with severe obesity more difficult. The limitations imposed on accessibility to non-urgent care during the lockdown of "phase 1" of this pandemic have created the need to revolutionize clinical practice to meet the health demands of chronic and high-risk diseases such as obesity and diabetes. The use of technology and risk stratification to establish the priority of access to the treatments that we have been forced to undertake will be useful tools for a new phase of a more efficient and successful treatment of diabesity.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1590-1262
Volume :
26
Issue :
5
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Eating and weight disorders : EWD
Publication Type :
Editorial & Opinion
Accession number :
32666376
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-020-00958-9