VIDEO: Obesity increases risks for long-term COVID-19 symptoms
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In this video exclusive, Healio | Endocrine Today Co-editor Sangeeta R. Kashyap, MD, talks with Rekha Kumar, MD, about special considerations with COVID-19 for people with obesity.
Kashyap is a physician scientist in the Endocrinology Institute at Cleveland Clinic and professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Kumar is an endocrinologist and obesity medicine specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine and former medical director of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
People with obesity who become ill with COVID-19 are at higher risk for severe disease and for long-haul symptoms, Kumar said. She recommended COVID-19 testing and vaccination for people with obesity and increased attention to any symptoms for those exposed to the virus. She noted that weight stigma may lead patients with obesity to present later in the disease course than those without weight concerns.
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