COVID-19: A Lever for the Recognition of Obesity as a Disease? The French Experience

Karine Clément^{1

2}, Muriel Coupaye^{1

3}, Martine Laville⁴, Jean-Michel Oppert¹, Olivier Ziegler⁵

Affiliations

¹ Assistance-Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Nutrition Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
² Sorbonne University, INSERM, Nutrition and obesity: systemic approaches (NutriOmics) research unit, F-CRIN/FORCE Network, Paris, France.
³ Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Explorations Fonctionnelles Department, Obesity Reference Center, Louis Mourier Hospital, Université de Paris, Inserm UMR 1149, F-CRIN/FORCE Network, F-92000 , Colombes, France.
⁴ Hospices Civils de Lyon, Département Endocrinologie, Diabète et Nutrition, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine Rhône-Alpes, Univ-Lyon, CarMeN Laboratory, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, F-CRIN/FORCE Network, Pierre Bénite, Lyon, France.
⁵ Specialized Obesity Center and Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nutrition dept, Brabois Hospital, CHRU of Nancy, F-CRIN/FORCE Network, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France.

Comment

Karine Clément et al. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;28(9):1584-1585.

doi: 10.1002/oby.22924. Epub 2020 Aug 7.

Karine Clément^{1

2}, Muriel Coupaye^{1

3}, Martine Laville⁴, Jean-Michel Oppert¹, Olivier Ziegler⁵

¹ Assistance-Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Nutrition Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
² Sorbonne University, INSERM, Nutrition and obesity: systemic approaches (NutriOmics) research unit, F-CRIN/FORCE Network, Paris, France.
³ Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Explorations Fonctionnelles Department, Obesity Reference Center, Louis Mourier Hospital, Université de Paris, Inserm UMR 1149, F-CRIN/FORCE Network, F-92000 , Colombes, France.
⁴ Hospices Civils de Lyon, Département Endocrinologie, Diabète et Nutrition, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine Rhône-Alpes, Univ-Lyon, CarMeN Laboratory, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, F-CRIN/FORCE Network, Pierre Bénite, Lyon, France.
⁵ Specialized Obesity Center and Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nutrition dept, Brabois Hospital, CHRU of Nancy, F-CRIN/FORCE Network, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared no conflict of interest.

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