obesity and covid-19

Context: the emerging disease covid-19 has made a major problem for people around the world, and treatment systems are facing hardships. obesity is a risk factor for health, and covid-19 is a global disease. obesity may be a risk factor for this disease. the relationship between obesity and the disease was examined in this study. evidence acquisition: three databases, pubmed, scopus, and embase, were examined. the search strategy and keyword combinations were (“covid-19” or “coronavirus” or “wuhan virus” and “obesity” or “obese”). the results of related articles were used. results: obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases are the risk factors for covid-19, especially in severe cases, which can affect the length of hospital stay and mortality. conclusions: we know very little about this disease. thus, much research is needed to conduct. since obesity is a risk factor for this disease, exercise is proposed to prevent it.