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- Title
Obesity Accompanying COVID-19: The Role of Epicardial Fat.
- Authors
Zhao, Lei
- Abstract
With interest we read the study by Simonnet A et al. (1) in which important novel evidence is addressed that obesity is highly frequent among critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2) infection. Although clinically very relevant, it remains difficult to elucidate the mechanisms by which SARS-Cov-2 severity is increased in the context of obesity. As reported by Katz JN et al. (2), 28% of hospitalised patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presented cardiac complications including myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart failure (HF) and sudden death. Considering that myocardial response in COVID-19 is closely associated with in-hospital mortality, local biological effects on myocardial tissue from epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is warrant further discussion.
- Subjects
COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; OBESITY; SUDDEN death; HOSPITAL mortality; VIRAL pneumonia; ARTIFICIAL respiration; EPIDEMICS; DISEASE prevalence; SARS disease
- Publication
Obesity (19307381), 2020, Vol 28, Issue 8, p1367
- ISSN
1930-7381
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1002/oby.22867