Targeting the Adipose Tissue in COVID-19
Targeting the Adipose Tissue in COVID-19
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DOI:
10.1002/oby.22844
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发表时间:
2020-05-21
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影响因子:
6.9
通讯作者:
Iacobellis, Gianluca
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作者:
Malavazos, Alexis Elias;Romanelli, Massimiliano Marco Corsi;Iacobellis, Gianluca
The World Health Organization considers noncommunicable diseases, such as obesity, to be a major risk factor for becoming seriously ill with 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)(1). A study by the UK Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre indicates that two-thirds of people who have developed serious or fatal COVID-19–related complications had overweight or obesity (2). The report includes data from all COVID-19 admissions in intensive care units in the UK until midnight, March 19, 2020. The study shows that almost 72% of those in critical care units had either overweight or obesity, suggesting the impact of obesity in seriously ill COVID-19 patients.At the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Italian National Institute of Health (Instituto Superiore di Sanità) launched a surveillance system to collect information on all people with COVID-19 throughout the country. Data on all COVID-19 cases were obtained from all 19 Italian regions and the 2 autonomous provinces of Trento and Bozen (3). The report from Italy indicates that 99% of deaths occurred in patients with preexisting noncommunicable diseases, such as obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, heart disease, kidney damage, and cancer (3). As of April 2, 2020, 145 of the 12,250 (1.2%) COVID-19–positive patients under the age of 50 have died. In particular, 35 of these were less than 40 years, 94 men and 26 women (age range between 26 and 39 years). For 14 patients under the age of 40 years, no clinical information is available; the remaining 18 had serious preexisting pathologies, such as severe obesity and its comorbidities (cardiovascular, renal, diabetes mellitus, and psychiatric pathologies), and 3 had no major pathologies (3).