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Complications of obesity in children and adolescents during covid-19 pandemic: A narrative review / Complicaciones de la obesidad en niños y adolescentes durante la pandemia de COVID-19: una revisión narrativa

Obesity in children and adolescents has increased exponentially around the world. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a higher pediatric obesity rate. The excess adipose tissue generates a dysregulation of adiponectin, ghrelin, and leptin, among others. Metabolic alterations can develop cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemias, arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, sleep disorders, and higher risk of COVID-19 severity. Obesity has different therapeutic approaches such as behavioral weight loss programs, pharmacologic treatments, and surgical procedures. Therefore, timely diagnosis and treatment are important to decrease the mortality in obesity among pediatric population.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/659028
Date13 November 2021
CreatorsConcepción-Zavaleta, Marcio, Ramos-Yataco, Anthony, Alcalde-Loyola, Carlos, Moreno-Marreros, Diego, Coronado-Arroyo, Julia, Ildefonso-Najarro, Sofia, Quispe-Flores, Maria, Plasencia-Dueñas, Esteban, Concepción-Urteaga, Luis, Zavaleta-Gutiérrez, Francisca, Fernández-Dávila, Freddy Valdivia
PublisherAssociation Medical Corps of the National Hospital Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
Source SetsUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)
LanguageSpanish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceRevista del Cuerpo Médico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo, 14, Sup1, 55, 61
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Relationhttp://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2227-47312021000300008&lng=es&nrm=iso

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