Mediterranean diet as a nutritional approach for COVID-19

Angeliki M Angelidi; Alexander Kokkinos; Eleftheria Katechaki; Emilio Ros; Christos S Mantzoros

doi:10.1016/j.metabol.2020.154407

Mediterranean diet as a nutritional approach for COVID-19

Metabolism. 2021 Jan:114:154407. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2020.154407. Epub 2020 Oct 17.

Authors

Angeliki M Angelidi¹, Alexander Kokkinos², Eleftheria Katechaki³, Emilio Ros⁴, Christos S Mantzoros⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
² First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine and Diabetes Center, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens 11527, Greece.
³ Agricultural Cooperatives' Union of Aeghion, Corinthou 201, Aeghion 25100, Greece.
⁴ Lipid Clinic, Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic, Barcelona 08036, Spain; CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid 28029, Spain.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Section of Endocrinology, VA Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: cmantzor@bidmc.harvard.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: Anti-inflammatory; Antioxidant; COVID-19; Coronavirus disease 2019; Inflammation; Mediterranean diet; Nutrition; Obesity; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / complications
COVID-19 / diet therapy*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / virology
Diabetes Mellitus / drug therapy
Diet, Mediterranean*
Humans
Obesity / complications
Obesity / diet therapy
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification