Is COVID-19 the Newest Comorbidity of Obesity Mitigated by Bariatric Surgery?

JAMA Surg. 2022 Mar 1;157(3):230. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.6549.

Authors

Paulina Salminen^{1

2}, Gerhard Prager³, Phil R Schauer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Digestive Surgery and Urology, Department of Digestive Surgery, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
² Department of Surgery, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
³ Division of Surgery, Department of Digestive Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁴ Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

PMID: 34964828
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.6549

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MeSH terms

Bariatric Surgery*
COVID-19*
Comorbidity
Humans
Obesity / complications
Obesity / epidemiology
Obesity / surgery
SARS-CoV-2