Desfechos clínicos e nutricionais de paciente idosos com Covid-19hospitalizados: uma revisão narrativa da literatura

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The guiding question that supported this research was: what are

the clinical and nutritional consequences of hospitalized elderly patients with covid- 19? Thus, the present study is justified by the relevance of understanding the

importance of encouraging research as a strategy to reduce the prevalence of food and nutritional insecurity in the hospital environment that can generate other diseases such as malnutrition, nutritional deficiencies and worsening of diseases such as Covid-19 in hospitalized elderly patients. it is understood that the nutritional component is fundamental in the infectious process and in the recovery time of patients diagnosed with Covid-19. OBJECTIVE: The present study aims to identify in the literature the clinical and nutritional outcomes of hospitalized elderly patients with covid-19. METHODOLOGY: This is a narrative literature review, based on the search of articles indexed in the databases Scielo, Pubmed and specialized national journals of the Google Scholar search site. CONCLUSION: Thus, nutritional extremities and inadequate lifestyle habits, such as smoking and alcohol consumption, obesity for example constitute risk factors for a poor prognosis in individuals with Covid-19.