Impact of COVID-19 on Obesity Management Services in the United Kingdom (The COMS-UK study)

Moussa, Osama; Zakeri, Roxanna; Arhi, Chanpreet; O’Kane, Mary; Snowdon-Carr, Vanessa; Menon, Vinod; Mahawar, Kamal; Purkayastha, Sanjay

doi:10.1007/s11695-020-05005-1

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“…Similarly, Fresán et al reported that obesity was an independent risk factor for hospitalization and COVID-19 severity, especially in young patients; Peters et al reported that obesity increase the odds for COVID-19 mortality for both genders (Fresán et al, 2020;Peters et al, 2020). Even though some studies identified increased BMI risk on COVID-19 poor outcome among certain groups, such as young people, women or people of black and Asian ethnic backgrounds, it seems that obesity is considered an independent risk factor for poor COVID-19 outcome across all patients groups, and even sometimes preceding the age as the main risk factor for poor prognosis of this novel infection (Caci et al, 2020;Fresán et al, 2020;Magdy Beshbishy et al, 2020;Moussa et al, 2020;Popkin et al, 2020).…”

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“…Elective surgeries are still being postponed at several centers worldwide to take care of the COVID patients with limited health resources. In the United Kingdom, nearly all elective bariatric surgeries were postponed in April 2020, the peak COVID-19 pandemic [9]. Various other abdominal surgeries, including colorectal surgeries [10,11], solid organ transplants [12], were severely affected in 2020.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on the outcomes of gastrointestinal surgery

Gupta

Ammar

2021

Clin J Gastroenterol

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COVID-19 pandemic has brought a paradigm shift in the treatment of various surgical gastrointestinal disorders. Given the increasing number of patients requiring hospitalization and intensive care for SARS-CoV-2 infections, various surgical departments worldwide were forced to stop or postpone elective surgeries to save the health resources for COVID-19 patients. Since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization on 12th March 2020, the recommendations from the surgical societies kept evolving to help the surgeons in making informed decisions regarding patient care. Moreover, various socio-economic and epidemiological factors have come into play while deciding the optimal approach towards patients requiring gastrointestinal surgery. Surgeries for many abdominal diseases such as acute appendicitis and acute calculous cholecystitis were postponed. Elective surgeries were triaged based on the urgency of performing the surgical procedure, the hospital burden of COVID-19 patients, and the availability of healthcare resources. Various measures were adopted such as preoperative screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection, use of personal protective equipment, and the COVID-19-free surgical pathway to prevent perioperative SARS-CoV-2 transmission. In this article, we have reviewed the recent studies reporting the outcomes of various gastrointestinal surgeries in the COVID-19 pandemic era and the recommendations from various surgical societies on the safety precautions to be followed during gastrointestinal surgery.

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“…Frequency of on-site face-to-face obesity management services ( 12 , 13 ) and bariatric surgeries were reduced or canceled during the lockdown period ( 13 , 14 ). This further impacted individuals with obesity who were actively seeking treatment for weight loss, those who were already enrolled in a weight loss program, and patients in post-bariatric operative care.…”

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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Effectiveness of a Metabolic Health Telemedicine Intervention for Weight Loss: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Athinarayanan

Adams

VanTieghem

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Front. Public Health

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BackgroundCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic public health measures such as stay-at-home and mandatory work-from-home orders have been associated with obesogenic lifestyle changes, increased risk of weight gain, and their metabolic sequelae. We sought to assess the impact of this pandemic on weight loss from a telemedicine-delivered very-low-carbohydrate intervention targeting nutritional ketosis (NKI).MethodsA total of 746 patients with a BMI ≥25kg/m2, enrolled between January and March 2020 and treated for at least 1 year with the NKI, were classified as pandemic cohort (PC). A separate cohort of 699 patients who received 1 year of the NKI in the preceding years, enrolled between January and March 2018, were identified as pre-pandemic cohort (Pre-PC). Demographic and clinical data were obtained from medical records to compare the cohorts and assess the outcomes. Using propensity score matching (PSM), balanced and matched groups of 407 patients in the Pre-PC and 407 patients in the PC were generated. Longitudinal change in absolute weight and percentage weight change from baseline to 1 year were assessed.ResultsWeight significantly decreased in both PC and Pre-PC at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. The weight loss trajectory was similar in both PC and Pre-PC with no significant weight differences between the two cohorts at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. On an average, the PC lost 7.5% body weight while the Pre-PC lost 7.9% over 1 year, and the percent weight loss did not differ between the two cohorts (p = 0.50).ConclusionA very-low-carbohydrate telemedicine intervention delivered comparable and medically significant weight loss independent of pandemic stress and lifestyle limitations.

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Impact of COVID-19 on Obesity Management Services in the United Kingdom (The COMS-UK study)

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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Effectiveness of a Metabolic Health Telemedicine Intervention for Weight Loss: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

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