Apocalyptic COVID-19 mortality and BMI: a J-shape relationship?

BMI could be considered the strongest key element for defining “frail/vulnerable” persons during SARS-COV-2 infection. National authorities should be taking into account these data for planning future preventive measured and vaccination and avoiding an increase of mortality due to COVID-19 infection...

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Autores principales: Lauretani, Fulvio, Lauretani, Ferdinando, Maggio, Marcello
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mattioli 1885 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9171893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35546019
http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v93i2.11936
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description BMI could be considered the strongest key element for defining “frail/vulnerable” persons during SARS-COV-2 infection. National authorities should be taking into account these data for planning future preventive measured and vaccination and avoiding an increase of mortality due to COVID-19 infection. BMI is an expression of obesity and one of phenotypic criteria of undernutrition. Both of these conditions are really relevant worldwide, suggesting the need of implementing the knowledge on the importance of nutrition for general health and also for preventing severe forms of COVID-19 infection. (www.actabiomedica.it)
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spelling pubmed-91718932022-06-29 Apocalyptic COVID-19 mortality and BMI: a J-shape relationship? Lauretani, Fulvio Lauretani, Ferdinando Maggio, Marcello Acta Biomed Review/Focus on BMI could be considered the strongest key element for defining “frail/vulnerable” persons during SARS-COV-2 infection. National authorities should be taking into account these data for planning future preventive measured and vaccination and avoiding an increase of mortality due to COVID-19 infection. BMI is an expression of obesity and one of phenotypic criteria of undernutrition. Both of these conditions are really relevant worldwide, suggesting the need of implementing the knowledge on the importance of nutrition for general health and also for preventing severe forms of COVID-19 infection. (www.actabiomedica.it) Mattioli 1885 2022 2022-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9171893/ /pubmed/35546019 http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v93i2.11936 Text en Copyright: © 2022 ACTA BIO MEDICA SOCIETY OF MEDICINE AND NATURAL SCIENCES OF PARMA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9171893/
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