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By Matthew Rees

Food and Health Fact #49: Covid-related hospitalizations and cardio-metabolic conditions

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A study published yesterday by researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts showed that 64 percent of Covid-related hospitalizations through mid-November were a product of just four conditions: obesity (30%), hypertension (26%), diabetes (21%), heart failure (12%). “We know that changes in diet quality alone, even without weight loss, rapidly improve metabolic health within just six to eight weeks,” said the study’s lead author, Dariush Mozaffarian. “It’s crucial to test such lifestyle approaches for reducing severe COVID-19 infections, both for this pandemic and future pandemics likely to come.”