Nutritional Status and Frailty during and after COVID-19
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 6642
Special Issue Editor
2. Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Via Olgettina 60, 00132 Milan, Italy
Interests: immune-mediated diseases; metabolic diseases; sarcopenia; obesity-associated sarcopenia; aging
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
COVID-19 might affect the nutritional status and physical performance of both patients and survivors. Several factors including reduced appetite, alterations to smell and taste, prolonged bed rest, and the catabolic effects of systemic inflammation may result in malnutrition. Indeed, initial weight loss followed by a worsening of body composition after recovery has been reported in COVID-19 patients, enhancing their vulnerability to developing skeletal muscle loss, not only in old, comorbid individuals, but also in previously robust ones. At the same time, altered muscle quality may lead to poor short- and long-term outcomes following COVID-19, predicting persistent mobility problems even months after recovery. Therefore, an aberrant nutritional status, which likely has a causative link to the risk of frailty and reduced physical performance, might be a major contributor to post-COVID-19 sequelae, hampering the patient’s ability to completely recover from the disease. Evidence on the nutritional status of COVID-19 patients and survivors, together with the characteristics, prevalence, and effects of its alterations, is still poor. Additionally, the clinical and etiological phenotypes of frailty in these patients are still unclear. This Special Issue aims to fill these gaps with the belief that a thorough understanding of a problem is half the solution.
Dr. Rebecca De Lorenzo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- frailty
- sarcopenia
- nutrition
- malnutrition
- physical performance
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