Current Highlights

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Since its inception, the taskforce has identified areas for research and evidence synthesis relating to nutritional aspects of the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, including issues of food and nutrition security amid this global crisis. Our aim has been to coordinate and share resources with NNEdPro’s global and regional networks, and the public, to highlight key challenges and best guidance on good nutrition and health practices in the context of COVID-19. Updates this week include:

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Recent Nutrition site highlights include

• The direct and indirect effects of bioactive compounds against coronavirus

• Prevalence of Micronutrient Deficiencies in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19: An Observational Cohort Study

• Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Lockdown on the Preoperative Care Program of Patients Scheduled for Bariatric Surgery

• Role of Early Enteral Nutrition in Mechanically Ventilated COVID-19 Patients

• Nutritional intake and gastro-intestinal symptoms in critically ill COVID-19 patients

  

Long COVID and COVID Recovery

• A UK survey of nutritional care pathways for patients with COVID-19 prior to and post-hospital stay

 

New BMJ Nutrition Articles