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Lockdown Effect on Elderly Nutritional Health
Pandemics and lockdowns may be associated with unpremeditated consequences, such as bodyweight changes, isolation, as well as sedentarity. Reports have been published on malnutrition among patients suffering from COVID-19. This study aimed to highlight the short-term effects of the lockdown on the n...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8584610/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34768572 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10215052 |
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author | Ghanem, Jeyniver Colicchio, Bruno Andrès, Emmanuel Geny, Bernard Dieterlen, Alain |
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description | Pandemics and lockdowns may be associated with unpremeditated consequences, such as bodyweight changes, isolation, as well as sedentarity. Reports have been published on malnutrition among patients suffering from COVID-19. This study aimed to highlight the short-term effects of the lockdown on the nutritional health of elderly people living at home and benefiting from home care services, yet without any COVID-19 pathology. In 50 subjects displaying weight, body mass index, and MNA score stability two months earlier, we observed significant alterations in these parameters following the lockdown. Thus, malnutrition rose from 28–34% to 58%. Furthermore, trigger factors for malnutrition changed, with social isolation accounting for 64% of the confinement’s deleterious effects among the elderly. In conclusion, despite the elderly being not directly affected by SARS-CoV2, the nutritional status of elderly subjects living at home with no or only mild autonomy loss was greatly and rapidly affected by the lockdown. Moreover, the main trigger factors for malnutrition were essentially related to social isolation and depressive syndromes. Knowing the impact of confinement on the elderly’s health, these results may help further modulate ongoing public health interventions in case of future lockdowns. |
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spelling | pubmed-85846102021-11-12 Lockdown Effect on Elderly Nutritional Health Ghanem, Jeyniver Colicchio, Bruno Andrès, Emmanuel Geny, Bernard Dieterlen, Alain J Clin Med Communication Pandemics and lockdowns may be associated with unpremeditated consequences, such as bodyweight changes, isolation, as well as sedentarity. Reports have been published on malnutrition among patients suffering from COVID-19. This study aimed to highlight the short-term effects of the lockdown on the nutritional health of elderly people living at home and benefiting from home care services, yet without any COVID-19 pathology. In 50 subjects displaying weight, body mass index, and MNA score stability two months earlier, we observed significant alterations in these parameters following the lockdown. Thus, malnutrition rose from 28–34% to 58%. Furthermore, trigger factors for malnutrition changed, with social isolation accounting for 64% of the confinement’s deleterious effects among the elderly. In conclusion, despite the elderly being not directly affected by SARS-CoV2, the nutritional status of elderly subjects living at home with no or only mild autonomy loss was greatly and rapidly affected by the lockdown. Moreover, the main trigger factors for malnutrition were essentially related to social isolation and depressive syndromes. Knowing the impact of confinement on the elderly’s health, these results may help further modulate ongoing public health interventions in case of future lockdowns. MDPI 2021-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8584610/ /pubmed/34768572 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10215052 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Ghanem, Jeyniver Colicchio, Bruno Andrès, Emmanuel Geny, Bernard Dieterlen, Alain Lockdown Effect on Elderly Nutritional Health |
title | Lockdown Effect on Elderly Nutritional Health |
title_full | Lockdown Effect on Elderly Nutritional Health |
title_fullStr | Lockdown Effect on Elderly Nutritional Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Lockdown Effect on Elderly Nutritional Health |
title_short | Lockdown Effect on Elderly Nutritional Health |
title_sort | lockdown effect on elderly nutritional health |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8584610/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34768572 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10215052 |
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