Obesity as an Aggravator of COVID-19: An Integrative Review Alcides Pereira de Brito, Analice Barbosa Santos de Oliveira

Abstract

This work aims to explore obesity as an aggravating factor in COVID-19, both of which are worldwide epidemics. Obesity is common in patients with COVID-19 and appears to worsen the prognosis of the disease. There may be some potential relationship between them, but still little explored. This work investigated the relationship of the worsening of COVID-19 in obese people through bibliographical research. It used as a method the integrative literature review research of scientific articles in the PUBMED, Scielo and MEDLINE databases, having as descriptors obesity, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and Epidemic.