CONTEMPORARY ISSUES ANALYSIS Using APA Style 7th Edition, develop a paper, 8 – 10 pages maximum including references, which delineates and analyzes one contemporary health related issue. PART I · From...

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Running Header: Contemporary Issues Analysis – Obesity
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Contemporary Issues Analysis – Obesity
Contemporary Issues Analysis – Obesity
Part I
The four articles identified reviewed over a period of four weeks focus on obesity and its link with COVID-19 pandemic.
The discussion is presented as follows:
Wadman (2020) finds that since the time the cu
ent pandemic started, numerous studies has reported in that numerous patients who are noted to be sickest with COVID-19 are people who are obese. Over recent weeks, Wadman (2020) also finds that this link to become at sharper focus with larger and newer population-based studies have further confirming this interlink as well as illustrated that individuals who are just overweight appear to be facing higher levels of risk. The combined set of factors spanning social, physiological and other such aspects drives these grim trends. Wadman (2020) finds the biology concerning obesity to entail chronic inflammation, impaired immunity, as well as blood which is prone for getting clotted, and all of the same could lead to the worsening of COVID-19. In addition, on account of obesity getting stigmatized to such a significant manner, people who are obese could avoid any medical care. The individuals who are obese, as noted by Wadman (2020), shall be highly likely as against people with normal-weight in having other various diseases which shall be independent form of risk factors with respect to severe forms of COVID-19, inclusive of diabetes, lung disease and heart disease. They shall in addition be prone towards metabolic syndrome, within which the levels of blood sugar, levels of fat, or else both of them shall be unhealthy and even the blood pressure could be higher.
Preidt (2020) assesses the newer CDC maps published for 2019 and the same same puts rates of adult obesity across 12 states to be equal to or else more than 35 per cent. These states include Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Michigan, South Carolina, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Tennessee. Preidt (2020) also notes that obesity to worsen the outcomes of COVID-19, increasing overall risks pertaining to severe illness, serious hospitalization as well as death, and further obesity in a disproportionate manner impacts some of the minority groups that are in addition exposed to increased levels of risk with respect to COVID-19. Preidt (2020) finds that the disparities essentially underscore overall need for removing the ba
iers towards healthy living as well as making sure that the communities effectively support healthier and active form of lifestyle to all.
Wu (2020) finds the obesity rates and trends to be continuing its upward climb across United States, and finds the role of obesity with respect to Covid-19 in being a scientific question of thorny nature. Wu (2020) notes varied studies in recent times having illustrated that people who have extra weight shall be highly susceptible as compared to others for severe bouts from the disease. In addition, experiments done on animals as well as human cells are noted to have illustrated the ways in which excess fat could cause disruption of immune system. Yet, Wu (2020) states that direct relationship in-between obesity and that of Covid-19 to be of complex one, as well as various mysteries continue to remain. The excess amount of weight appears to be linked with various medical conditions, akin to higher blood pressure as well as diabetes, and these could by themselves shall make it difficult for fighting Covid-19. In addition, Wu (2020) finds obesity to be affecting, in a disproportionate manner, people who belong to Latino and Black groups, and these groups face higher levels of risk as compared to others in contracting and even dying due to Covid-19. The same to a large extent has been on account of exposure in their respective workplaces, limited levels of accessibility towards medical care as well as various inequities that are linked with systemic racism. Further, people who have extra weight need to grapple with a stigma that is persistent in terms of their health and appearance, even at the level of doctors, therein imperilling further the prognosis. Wu (2020) states co
elations in-between obesity and that of Covid-19 to be highly wo
isome highlighting one of the reports that was published recently where the researchers find people who are obese and who have contracted coronavirus to have over two times likelihood for ending up being hospitalized as well as that close to 50 per cent shall be highly likely in dying from Covid-19. Wu (2020) cites other study that is yet to be peer-reviewed illustrating that amongst close to ~17,000 patients hospitalized due to Covid-19 across United States, over ~77 per cent are noted to be either obese or have excess weight.
Jameson (2020) states that physicians in Phoebe are
inging to attention growing levels of risk-factors with respect to child obesity as well as other various conditions that are underlying amidst this pandemic. Children who are eighteen as well as younger seem...