{"id":10018,"date":"2021-05-25T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10018"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T21:57:56","slug":"poor-nutritional-status-risk-of-sarcopenia-and-nutrition-related-complaints-are-prevalent-in-covid-19-patients-during-and-after-hospital-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/25\/poor-nutritional-status-risk-of-sarcopenia-and-nutrition-related-complaints-are-prevalent-in-covid-19-patients-during-and-after-hospital-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Nutritional Status, Risk of Sarcopenia and Nutrition Related Complaints Are Prevalent in COVID-19 Patients during and after Hospital Admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">73% of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were at high risk of muscle tissue loss (sarcopenia) and 22% of patients experienced serious acute weight loss (&gt;5kg), according to a prospective observational cohort in the Netherlands conducted from April to December 2020 (n=407). Muscle tissue loss was defined as \u22654 points on the SARC-F questionnaire during hospitalization. The median length of in-hospital stay was 15 days and 85% were admitted to the ICU during hospitalization. The most commonly reported complaints were decreased appetite (58%), feeling of being full (49%), and shortness of breath (43%).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wierdsma et al.\u00a0(Apr 12, 2021). Poor Nutritional Status, Risk of Sarcopenia and Nutrition Related Complaints Are Prevalent in COVID-19 Patients during and after Hospital Admission. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.clnesp.2021.03.021\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.clnesp.2021.03.021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>73% of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were at high risk of muscle tissue loss (sarcopenia) and 22% of patients experienced serious acute weight loss (&gt;5kg), according to a prospective observational cohort in the Netherlands conducted from April to December 2020 (n=407). Muscle tissue loss was defined as \u22654 points on the SARC-F questionnaire during hospitalization&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/25\/poor-nutritional-status-risk-of-sarcopenia-and-nutrition-related-complaints-are-prevalent-in-covid-19-patients-during-and-after-hospital-admission\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-10018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10019,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions\/10019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}