The Relation Between Dietary Pattern and Nutritional Status with Chronic Diseases and Covid-19- A Case Report

Abstract

Kimia Moiniafshari, Farshad kalantari, Hafez Behzadi Nezhad

Covid-19 was considered as a global health-related challenge within the past years which affect individual’s quality of life in several aspects. It has been suggested that health status including nutritional status, can be one of the most crucial indicators for Covid-19 infection. It seems that poor dietary pattern background and nutritional deficiencies may increase the risk of covid-19 infection. The purpose of this case-report, was to evaluate the relation between dietary pattern and nutritional status with Covid-19 possibility in 64 years old women infected with Covid-19. Before the study, all the health-related indicators were assessed.

The results from this study have indicated that previous nutritional status can be a possible cause for immune system weakness and dysfunction, which may be considered as a leading cause of Covid-19 infection. Planning and recruiting nutritional strategies including high quality diet with variety of food groups can provide nutritional requirements. Moreover, supplementation can prescribe according to patients’ nutritional deficiencies.

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