Effect of Obesity on Covid-19 Patients

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.055How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Covid-19, Comorbid, Obesity, Severity, morbidity

Abstract

Background: Covid-19 is a disease that can cause pneumonia, respiratory failure, and death. Patients with severe infections should be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with a ventilator, while the ventilator facilities in the ICU are limited. For this reason, vigilance is needed by knowing conditions that can aggravate Covid-19, one of which is obesity, while existing findings regarding the relationship between obesity and the severity of Covid-19 disease are still inconsistent and adequate. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of obesity on the severity of Covid-19. Methods: This study uses a systematic review with the PRISMA method without meta-analysis, by searching for articles from online databases, namely Scopus and ProQuest, using the keywords obesity and covid-19 comorbidities. After selecting the title, the next step is to read the abstract and the article as a whole. Researchers used 12 relevant articles based on research titles and abstracts. Result: Several articles indicated that there was no significant difference in symptoms between patients suffering from obesity and Covid-19 and those suffering only from Covid-19. In subsequent analysis, obese patients have a poor prognosis of ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome), severe symptoms, and a higher mortality rate among Covid-19 patients. Conclusions: Obese patients are at risk for Covid-19 infection. Obesity contributes to the severity and mortality of Covid-19 patients. This condition causes the patient to be admitted to the ICU. In addition, obese patients in adulthood are more susceptible to Covid-19 infection.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Celly Devita Febrianti
AU  - Cicylia Candi
AU  - Wahyu Sulistiadi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/25
TI  - Effect of Obesity on Covid-19 Patients
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Health Development. Covid-19 and the Role of Healthcare Workers in the Industrial Era (ICHD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 315
EP  - 320
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.055
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.055
ID  - Febrianti2020
ER  -