COVID-19 Research and Information

Research and information regarding COVID-19 links with obesity

With research growing regarding the links between COVID-19 and obesity, we have collated links to studies, surveys and articles of interest:

• Joint position paper: “Obesity and COVID-19: a call for action from people living with obesity” S Le Brocq, K Clare, M Bryant, K Roberts, AA Tahrani
• Information and guidance collated by EASO
• Survey: New UCL study exploring the impact of COVID19 on people living with obesity Adrian Brown and Rachel Batterham
• Dan Wilson (Yorkshire Sport Foundation) and Grant Huddlestone (Birmingham City University) consider the impact of the pandemic on children’s physical education
• The environmental charity, Hubbub, speculates on how the pandemic might affect the food industry and the eating habits of the nation
• Obesity and its Implications for COVID-19 Mortality William Dietz, Carlos Santos-Burgoa
• Obesity in patients younger than 60 years is a risk factor for Covid-19 hospital admission Jennifer Lighter, MD. NYU School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health
• High frequency of obesity among patients admitted in intensive care for SARS-CoV-2. Disease severity increased with BMI. Arthur Simonnet. Department of Intensive Care, Lille, France
• ICNARC report on COVID-19 in critical care – collecting data on comorbidities and characteristics and covid-19 patients including BMI
• Call for formal studies analysing the relationship between disease severity and body mass index or waist to height ratios  – BMJ letter Andrew Y Huang, Antitheist University of Melbourne
• COVID‐19–Related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children Andrew G. Rundle. Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA
• The Lancet Coronavirus Resource Centre
• Who makes food policy in England, and the need for coordinated policy making in response to Covid Food Research Collaboration
• Briefing: How are COVID-19 measures affecting the food environment? Obesity Health Alliance