Nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices can markedly reduce disease burden, morbidity, and mortality associated with COVID-19 and cardiometabolic risk factors.
Do nutrition and lifestyle interventions reduce COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in individuals with cardiometabolic risk factors?
This review highlights the critical role of nutrition and lifestyle interventions in mitigating the combined burden of cardiometabolic risk and COVID-19.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cardiometabolic risk (CMR) are highly prevalent globally. The interplay between CVD/CMR and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality has been intensely studied over the last three years and has yielded some important discoveries and warnings for public health. Despite many advances in cardiovascular medicine, CVD continues to be the global leading cause of death. Much of this disease burden results from high CMR imposed by behaviors centered around poor nutrition related to lifestyle choices and systemic constraints. Increased CVD/CMR contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic's unprecedented wave of disability and death, and the current state of cardiovascular health been equated to a "Population Code Blue." There is an urgent and unmet need to reorient our priorities towards health promotion and disease prevention. This manuscript will review how nutrition and lifestyle affect outcomes in COVID-19 and how some interventions and healthy lifestyle choices can markedly reduce disease burden, morbidity, and mortality.
Reddy et al. (Mon,) conducted a review in COVID-19 and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors. Nutrition and lifestyle choices was evaluated. Nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices can markedly reduce disease burden, morbidity, and mortality associated with COVID-19 and cardiometabolic risk factors.