Medical Nutrition Therapy in Hospitalized Patients With SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection in a Non-critical Care Setting : Knowledge in Progress

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: As of 13 September 2020, almost 28 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 including more than 920,000 deaths have been reported to the World Health Organization. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic represents a potential threat to patients and healthcare systems worldwide. Patients with the worst outcomes and higher mortality are reported to include older adults, polymorbid individuals, and malnourished people in general. The purpose of this review is to provide concise guidance for the nutritional management of individuals with COVID-19 based on the current literature and focused on those in the non-ICU setting or with an older age and polymorbidity, which are independently associated with malnutrition and its negative impact on mortality.

RECENT FINDINGS: Prolonged hospital stays are reported to be required for individuals with COVID-19, and longer acute setting stays may directly worsen or cause malnutrition, with severe loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, which may lead to poor quality of life and additional morbidity. Nutritional therapy is among the mainstay of therapeutic principles and one of the core contents of comprehensive treatment measures. The current COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. The prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of malnutrition should therefore be routinely included in the management of individuals with COVID-19.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Current nutrition reports - 9(2020), 4 vom: 30. Dez., Seite 309-315

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cervantes-Pérez, Enrique [VerfasserIn]
Cervantes-Guevara, Gabino [VerfasserIn]
Martínez-Soto Holguín, Martha C [VerfasserIn]
Cervantes-Pérez, Lorena A [VerfasserIn]
Cervantes-Pérez, Gabino [VerfasserIn]
Cervantes-Cardona, Guillermo Alonso [VerfasserIn]
González-Ojeda, Alejandro [VerfasserIn]
Fuentes-Orozco, Clotilde [VerfasserIn]
Ramírez-Ochoa, Sol [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Immunonutrition
Journal Article
Malnutrition
Nutrition therapy
Oral nutritional supplements
Review
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 04.12.2020

Date Revised 18.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s13668-020-00337-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316941271