Medical Nutrition Therapy in Hospitalized Patients With SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection in a Non-critical Care Setting: Knowledge in Progress.
Enrique Cervantes-PérezGabino Cervantes-GuevaraMartha C Martínez-Soto HolguínLorena A Cervantes-PérezGabino Cervantes-PérezGuillermo Alonso Cervantes-CardonaAlejandro González-OjedaClotilde Fuentes-OrozcoSol Ramírez-OchoaPublished in: Current nutrition reports (2020)
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.