Emphasizing that obesity is the inner danger in the corona epidemic, VM Medical Park Ankara Hospital General Surgery Specialist, Obesity and Metabolic Surgeon Assoc. Dr. Fahri Yetişir said, “The Covid-19 epidemic prepares a place for obesity, and obesity weakens the body’s defense system against Covid-19 disease and prepares the ground for a severe Covid-19 disease.”
Obesity (obesity) and accompanying chronic diseases are defined as the impending hidden danger for humanity all over the world in the Covid-19 epidemic. Experts emphasize that while obesity has become the biggest problem of the whole world recently, with the addition of the Covid-19 epidemic, the number of obese people has increased due to the fact that people are closed to residences due to isolation rules.
General Surgery Specialist Assoc. Dr. Fahri Yetişir said, “With the increase in obesity, many very important diseases such as diabetes, cholesterol irregularity, high blood pressure, some cancer diseases, stroke, impotence and heart disease, accompanying obesity, have also increased.”
Attention to malnutrition and sedentary life!
Obesity and Metabolic Surgeon Assoc. Dr. Fahri Yetişir explained these as follows:
“As we all know, the first factor of obesity is malnutrition. Over-nutrition with foods with low nutritional value, poor vitamin and mineral content, and high-calorie foods. The second factor is a sedentary life, that is, the daily amount of movement is less. With the introduction of the Covid-19 epidemic into our lives, these two factors affected all people badly.”
Stating that people involuntarily imprison themselves in their houses due to isolation rules, Assoc. Dr. Fahri Yetişir stated that this situation obviously reduced the movement scale of people. Assoc. Dr. Fahri Yetişir said, “During the Covid process, a wide variety of dishes, breads and desserts were made and consumed in different mixtures and flavors. This has returned to people’s lives as excess weight,” he said.
OBESITY LOWERS IMMUNITY AGAINST COVID
Stating that besides the fact that morbid obesity is considered as a chronic disease on its own, the probability of obese patients to have co-morbid chronic diseases related to obesity increases greatly, Assoc. Dr. Fahri Yetişir gave the following warnings:
“As we all know, having a chronic disease also weakens the body’s defense system against Covid-19 disease. Morbidly obese patients are much more likely to get Covid-19 disease and have a severe illness compared to other people. As it can be understood from here, the Covid-19 epidemic prepares a place for obesity, and obesity weakens the body’s defense system against Covid-19 disease and prepares the ground for a severe Covid-19 disease.
WE ARE THE FIRST IN EUROPE IN OBSE RATE
Pointing out that our country is in the first place in Europe with a 30.3% obese person rate, according to the 2010 information of the Ministry of Health, Assoc. Dr. Prof. Dr. Fahri Yetişir underlined the need for a stable fight to eliminate obesity and its causes. Dr. Fahri Yetişir said, “Patients with a body mass index over 40, who cannot lose weight with diet and training, can be taken into surgery if there is no problem for the operation after a detailed research and then the examination of our obesity group. During and after the surgery, the maximum isolation rules against Covid-19 disease are followed and all patients are tested for Covid 19 before the surgery.
Underlining that obesity is not only a formal problem as many people think, but on the contrary, it is an important health problem that brings with it many chronic serious diseases, Assoc. Dr. Fahri Yetişir offered, “We need to be more important and persistent in the fight against obesity, which is the main enemy of our health.”
