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Coronavirus infections
Pandemic
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Abstract
Objective: Define factors that interfere in the course of childhood obesity when related to the coronavirus. Methods: A survey of data was made to describe the relationship between childhood obesity and the SARS-CoV-2. Data analysis was performed by observing the frequency, central tendency and dispersion in the TabNet program. Results: In view of the data collected, it was observed that individual habits are the ones that suffer the most, including food, which may be due to social availability or economic issue, leading to a preference for cheap, hypercaloric foods, with high sugar and sodium levels, and consequently, to late repercussions around 10 to 14 years of age. Conclusion: It is possible to associate obesity as an aggravating risk factor in manifestations in patients infected with COVID 19, The solution to the problem is through the prevention and promotion of health, through nutritional and physical education from early childhood.