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cord-322258-rl9o60cs	Parmar, Chetan	Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Can Prevent People with Obesity from COVID-19 Infection	2020-07-15		.txt	text/plain	1055	73	56	title: Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Can Prevent People with Obesity from COVID-19 Infection The COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 8.9 million globally and caused death of nearly 469,587 people (https:// www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/ situation-reports). Published literature shows that the predictors of poor outcomes in COVID-19 infection are obesity, hypertension (HT), and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) [1] , (https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports). Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients are more susceptible for respiratory infection and have poor outcomes (https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports). There were also concerns that BMS alters immunity and these patients are at higher risk of getting infected by COVID-19 [8] . Patients with BMS surgery are not at increased risk of COVID-19 infection compared with the general population. Patients with obesity who had BMS, decreases their fat stores, improves their comorbidities, and hence makes them less susceptible to severe outcomes if they catch COVID-19 infection. We need to strategize to fight these two pandemics, COVID-19 and obesity, simultaneously [1] (https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/ Reports).	./cache/cord-322258-rl9o60cs.txt	./txt/cord-322258-rl9o60cs.txt