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KMID : 1234920220220010077
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Journal of Korean Oriental Association for Study of Obesity
2022 Volume.22 No. 1 p.77 ~ p.85
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The Effect of Long Coronavirus Disease on Obesity and the Role of Korean Medicine
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Han Kyung-Sun
Kim Myung-Ho
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Abstract
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While the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is gradually turning into an endemic disease, concerns about post COVID-19 conditions (Long COVID) are emerging.
Obesity is a major risk factor for severe complications of COVID-19, and COVID-19 has a wide range of effects on obesity and metabolic function. This paper aims to examine the interaction between COVID-19 and obesity, the effects and mechanisms of long COVID on obesity, and the role of Korean medicine on long COVID-related obesity.
Obesity may worsen with cardiometabolic damage and psychosocial insecurity during COVID-19 and long COVID-induced neuroinflammation, systemic inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and hypoxia also may aggravate obesity. Korean Medicine treatments, which have been widely used to treat obesity, have the potential to improve obesity in the era of long COVID by intervening in these mechanisms.
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KEYWORD
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Obesity, COVID-19, Herbal medicine, Acupuncture, Korean traditional medicine
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