Could nutritional and functional status serve as prognostic factors for COVID-19 in the elderly?
Geriatric patients seem to be the most vulnerable group in COVID-19. These patients are usually characterized by impaired mobilization and malnutrition. In addition, obesity has been correlated with increased mortality rates after COVID-19 infection, highlighting the role of nutrition in prognosis o...
- Autores:
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2020
- Institución:
- Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
- Repositorio:
- Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/12113
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109946
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/12113
- Palabra clave:
- COVID-19
Malnutrition
Frailty
Elderly
Functional status
Síndrome respiratorio agudo grave
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
Coronavirus
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