Nutrition and COVID-19 (research up to May 2020)
Citation: BourBour F, Mirzaei Dahka S, Gholamalizadeh M, et al. Nutrients in prevention, treatment, and management of viral infections; special focus on Coronavirus. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry. 2020 Jul 7:1-10.
What is this? Nutrient supplementation has been suggested as a way to prevent, treat and manage COVID-19.
In this rapid review, the authors searched for studies of the effects of nutrients on the immune system, viral infection and coronaviruses. They restricted their searches to articles published in English between 1990 and 2020, and did the search before mid-May 2020. They included 51 studies (including 14 meta-analyses).
What was found: At the time of this review, although the evidence suggested that supplementation with some nutrients may be effective in improving the health status of patients with viral infections, the impact on the health status of patients with COVID-19 was uncertain.