Beneficial role of healthy eating Index-2015 score & physical activity on COVID-19 outcomes

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No definite pharmacological strategies for Coronavirus disease 2019 ' 'treatment are presently available, so natural enhancement of the immune system is in need. ' 'Our goal was to assess the correlation of healthy diet and physical activity on COVID-19 ' 'disease outcome.</jats:p>\n' ' </jats:sec><jats:sec>\n' ' <jats:title>Methods</jats:title>\n' ' <jats:p>This cohort study was conducted on 68 adult patients who contracted ' 'mild (38) or moderate [30] cases of COVID-19, recruited via a convenience sampling technique ' 'from the outpatient clinic, Kasr Al-Aini Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University Hospital. ' 'Patients’ Healthy Eating Index (HEI) and degree of physical activity as measured by the ' 'Global Physical Activity Questionnaire were evaluated and linked with several inflammatory ' 'markers.</jats:p>\n' ' </jats:sec><jats:sec>\n' ' <jats:title>Results</jats:title>\n' ' <jats:p>Most of patients with mild COVID-19 patients (92.1%) were physically ' 'active, compared to only 50% of moderate COVID-19. The total Metabolic Equivalent ' 'Task-min/week was positively correlated with the lymphocyte percentage. The median total HEI ' 'score was significantly higher in the patients with mild COVID-19 than with moderate COVID. ' 'Significant positive correlations observed among the lymphocyte count and total HEI-2015. ' 'There was approximately a 64% reduction in the probability of acquiring moderate COVID-19 ' 'illness for each unit rise in The HEI.</jats:p>\n' ' </jats:sec><jats:sec>\n' ' <jats:title>Conclusion</jats:title>\n' ' <jats:p>Healthier nutrition and Physical activity correlated with reduced ' 'COVID-19 disease severity.</jats:p>\n' ' </jats:sec><jats:sec>\n' ' <jats:title>Trial registration</jats:title>\n' ' <jats:p>The study was registered on clinical trial.gov maintained by the US ' 'National Library of Medicine (CinicalTrials.gov identifier\u2009=\u2009NCT04447144; ' '<jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" ' 'xlink:href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/">https://clinicaltrials.gov/</jats:ext-link>) ' '(25/06/2020).</jats:p>\n' ' </jats:sec>', 'DOI': '10.1186/s40795-023-00727-8', 'type': 'journal-article', 'created': {'date-parts': [[2023, 10, 2]], 'date-time': '2023-10-02T15:01:33Z', 'timestamp': 1696258893000}, 'update-policy': 'http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/springer_crossmark_policy', 'source': 'Crossref', 'is-referenced-by-count': 0, 'title': 'Beneficial role of healthy eating Index-2015 score &amp; physical activity on COVID-19 outcomes', 'prefix': '10.1186', 'volume': '9', 'author': [ {'given': 'Mona A', 'family': 'Hegazy', 'sequence': 'first', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Marwa M', 'family': 'Fouad', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Samah Ahmed', 'family': 'Abd elshafy', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Dalia', 'family': 'Abdelfatah', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Rania M', 'family': 'Lithy', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Ahmed', 'family': 'Abdelghani', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Omar Ahmed', 'family': 'Ashoush', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}], 'member': '297', 'published-online': {'date-parts': [[2023, 10, 2]]}, 'reference': [ { 'key': '727_CR1', 'unstructured': 'Aleem A, Akbar Samad AB, Slenker AK. 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