Association of COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders With 1-Year Weight Changes

Rena R Wing; Kripa Venkatakrishnan; Emily Panza; Oscar C Marroquin; Kevin E Kip

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.17313

Association of COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders With 1-Year Weight Changes

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jun 1;5(6):e2217313. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.17313.

Authors

Rena R Wing^{1

2}, Kripa Venkatakrishnan³, Emily Panza^{1

2}, Oscar C Marroquin³, Kevin E Kip³

Affiliations

¹ Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.
² Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
³ Clinical Analytics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

This cohort study assesses mean changes in weight and body mass index in adults during the years before and after stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Quarantine
SARS-CoV-2

Grants and funding

K23 MD015092/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States