Consequences of COVID-19 on Pediatric Obesity and Endocrinopathies: A Review of the Literature
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted children from Kindergarten through 12th grade in numerous ways. Strategies aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus early on, predominately social distancing and isolation, negatively impacted children’s physical health by limiting access to physical education and facilitating sedentary lifestyles. These negative effects have longstanding implications on the physical health of pediatric patients, and it is especially pertinent to understand these effects during an already alarming pediatric obesity epidemic. As with obesity in adults, obesity in children is associated with numerous endocrine co-morbidities. Through a literature review, this paper aims to go beyond understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the physical health of children and describe how the pandemic may have long-term effects on childhood obesity and endocrinopathies in pediatric patients. Additionally, it describes the direct impact COVID-19 may have on the increased incidence of endocrinopathies in pediatric patients.
Keywords:
COVID-19, Consequences of COVID-19, Pediatric Obesity, Pediatric Obesity and Endocrinopathies, Obesity and Endocrinopathies
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DELGADO, Amanda M.; COLLINS, Patrice Z.; MACARTHUR, Rodger D..
Consequences of COVID-19 on Pediatric Obesity and Endocrinopathies: A Review of the Literature.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 5, may 2023.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/3859>. Date accessed: 28 dec. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i5.3859.
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37. Drewnowski A, Specter SE. Poverty and obesity: the role of energy density and energy costs. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004;79(1):6-16. doi:10.1093/ajcn/79.1.6
38. Gucciardi E, Vahabi M, Norris N, Del Monte JP, Farnum C. The Intersection between Food Insecurity and Diabetes: A Review. Curr Nutr Rep. 2014;3(4):324-332. doi:10.1007/s13668-014-0104-4
39. Jenssen BP, Kelly MK, Powell M, Bouchelle Z, Mayne SL, Fiks AG. COVID-19 and Changes in Child Obesity. Pediatrics. 2021;147(5). doi:10.1542/peds.2021-050123
40. Niessen LW, Mohan D, Akuoku JK, et al. Tackling socioeconomic inequalities and non-communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries under the Sustainable Development agenda. Lancet. 2018;391(10134):2036-2046. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30482-3
41. Hauerslev M, Narang T, Gray N, Samuels TA, Bhutta ZA. Childhood obesity on the rise during COVID-19: A request for global leaders to change the trajectory. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022;30(2):288-291. doi:10.1002/oby.23307
42. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC grand rounds: childhood obesity in the United States. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011;60(2):42-46.
43. Rao PV. Type 2 diabetes in children: Clinical aspects and risk factors. Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2015;19(Suppl 1):S47-50. doi:10.4103/2230-8210.155401
44. Tsikouras P, Spyros L, Manav B, et al. Features of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in adolescence. J Med Life. 2015;8(3):291-296.
45. Engmann L, Jin S, Sun F, et al. Racial and ethnic differences in the polycystic ovary syndrome metabolic phenotype. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2017;216(5):493.e1-493.e13. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2017.01.003
46. Wagner IV, Sabin MA, Pfäffle RW, et al. Effects of obesity on human sexual development. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2012;8(4):246-254. doi:10.1038/nrendo.2011.241
47. Rutters F, Nieuwenhuizen AG, Verhoef SPM, Lemmens SGT, Vogels N, Westerterp-Plantenga MS. The relationship between leptin, gonadotropic hormones, and body composition during puberty in a Dutch children cohort. Eur J Endocrinol. 2009;160(6):973-978. doi:10.1530/EJE-08-0762