Food science and COVID-19

Lange, Klaus W.

doi:10.1016/j.fshw.2020.08.005

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“…In the current study, consumption of at least 0.67 servings/d of vegetables (cooked or raw, excluding potatoes) was associated with a lower risk of COVID-19 infection. Recent ecological studies of COVID-19 report that countries with high consumption of foods with potent antioxidant or anti angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity such as raw or fermented cabbage have a lower COVID-19 death rate compared to other countries [59,60]. Studies of vegetables and fermented-foods with COVID-19 mortality in Europe reported that each g/day increase in the average national consumption of head cabbage, cucumber or fermented vegetables decreased the mortality risk for COVID-19 by 11-35%; consumption of broccoli surprisingly increased COVID-19 mortality [9,10].…”

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Dietary Behaviors and Incident COVID-19 in the UK Biobank

Rydland

Achenbach

et al. 2021

Nutrients

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Background: Nutritional status influences immunity but its specific association with susceptibility to COVID-19 remains unclear. We examined the association of specific dietary data and incident COVID-19 in the UK Biobank (UKB). Methods: We considered UKB participants in England with self-reported baseline (2006–2010) data and linked them to Public Health England COVID-19 test results—performed on samples from combined nose/throat swabs, using real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)—between March and November 2020. Baseline diet factors included breastfed as baby and specific consumption of coffee, tea, oily fish, processed meat, red meat, fruit, and vegetables. Individual COVID-19 exposure was estimated using the UK’s average monthly positive case rate per specific geo-populations. Logistic regression estimated the odds of COVID-19 positivity by diet status adjusting for baseline socio-demographic factors, medical history, and other lifestyle factors. Another model was further adjusted for COVID-19 exposure. Results: Eligible UKB participants (n = 37,988) were 40 to 70 years of age at baseline; 17% tested positive for COVID-19 by SAR-CoV-2 PCR. After multivariable adjustment, the odds (95% CI) of COVID-19 positivity was 0.90 (0.83, 0.96) when consuming 2–3 cups of coffee/day (vs. <1 cup/day), 0.88 (0.80, 0.98) when consuming vegetables in the third quartile of servings/day (vs. lowest quartile), 1.14 (1.01, 1.29) when consuming fourth quartile servings of processed meats (vs. lowest quartile), and 0.91 (0.85, 0.98) when having been breastfed (vs. not breastfed). Associations were attenuated when further adjusted for COVID-19 exposure, but patterns of associations remained. Conclusions: In the UK Biobank, consumption of coffee, vegetables, and being breastfed as a baby were favorably associated with incident COVID-19; intake of processed meat was adversely associated. Although these findings warrant independent confirmation, adherence to certain dietary behaviors may be an additional tool to existing COVID-19 protection guidelines to limit the spread of this virus.

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Dietary Behaviors and Incident COVID-19 in the UK Biobank

Rydland

Achenbach

et al. 2021

Nutrients

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“…70 Brief, contact-based, online population interventions should be developed pro-actively to promote healthy lifestyle choices, including a balanced diet, physical exercise, regular sleep patterns and outdoor activities, as well as encouraging stress-relieving and anxiolytic activities, such as meditation. 71 , 72 , 73 Physical exercise routines are particularly relevant due to the benefits they offer for both physical and mental health. 74…”

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and global mental health

Lange

2021

Global Health Journal

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The mental health effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may shape population health for many years to come. Failure to address the mental health issues stemming from the pandemic is likely to prolong its impact. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a significant global challenge and, in lower-income countries, even a disruption of mental health services. Given our experience with previous pandemics, the present COVID-19 crisis can be expected to cause psychological trauma, and steps are needed to address this issue proactively. A focus on the long-term mental health consequences may be at least as important as the measures currently seeking to mitigate the short-term effects of COVID-19 and to save lives. The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for mental health call for a greater focus on the needs of those with mental disorders and on mental health issues affecting health care workers and the general public. Timely preventive and therapeutic mental health care is essential in addressing the psychosocial needs of populations exposed to the pandemic. In addition to specialist care, “task-shifting” and digital technologies may provide cost-effective means of providing mental health care in lower-income countries worldwide as well as in higher-income countries with mental health services overwhelmed by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of the ever-increasing pressure on global health systems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, adopting and adapting “task-shifting”, i.e. the delegation of psychotherapeutic interventions to trained non-specialists, as an element of the provision of mental health services, is overdue. Digital technologies can be used to enhance social support and facilitate resilience to the detrimental mental health effects of the pandemic; they may also offer an efficient and cost-effective way to provide easy access to mental health care.

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“…In fact, the Northern Hemisphere has borne most of the burden of cases and deaths for COVID-19, with the exception of the Nordic countries [ 29 , 30 ]. Furthermore, it is evident that individual factors, such as exercise, diet, and vitamin D exposure, in addition to structural policy issues, such as essential worker exposure, blue- vs. white-collar exposure, and nonuniversal healthcare coverage, concurrently influence an individual’s risk of contracting, and possibly dying from, the COVID-19 virus [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ]. Moreover, individual risk factors related to age [ 36 ] and obesity [ 37 ] have also been associated with severity of COVID-19 disease.…”

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COVID-19 and Air Pollution: A Spatial Analysis of Particulate Matter Concentration and Pandemic-Associated Mortality in the US

Bossak

Andritsch

2022

IJERPH

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In 2019, a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was first reported in Wuhan, China. The virus causes the disease commonly known as COVID-19, and, since its emergence, it has infected over 252 million individuals globally and taken the lives of over 5 million in the same time span. Primary research on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 focused on understanding the biomolecular composition of the virus. This research has led to the development of multiple vaccines with great efficacy and antiviral treatments for the disease. The development of biomedical interventions has been crucial to combating this pandemic; additionally, environmental confounding variables that could have exacerbated the pandemic need further assessment. In this research study, we conducted a spatial analysis of particulate matter (PM) concentration and its association with COVID-19 mortality in the United States. Results of this study demonstrate a significant positive correlation between PM concentration levels and COVID-19 mortality; however, this does not necessarily imply a causal relationship. These results are consistent with similar studies in Italy and China, where significant COVID-19 cases and corresponding deaths were exhibited. Furthermore, maps of the data demonstrate clustering of COVID-19 mortality which suggest further investigation into the social determinants of health impacting the pandemic.

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Food science and COVID-19

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Cited by 38 publications

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Dietary Behaviors and Incident COVID-19 in the UK Biobank

Dietary Behaviors and Incident COVID-19 in the UK Biobank

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and global mental health

COVID-19 and Air Pollution: A Spatial Analysis of Particulate Matter Concentration and Pandemic-Associated Mortality in the US

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