Early dinner or 'dinner like a pauper': Evidence, the habitual time of the largest meal of the day – dinner – is predisposing to severe COVID-19 outcome – death

Autor: Sergio Verd, Sara Beiro, Jaume Ponce-Taylor, Marisa Fernandez-Bernabeu
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Chronobiology International
ISSN: 1525-6073
0742-0528
Popis: COVID-19 and metabolic syndrome are devastating pandemics. Effective control of metabolic parameters and their dysfunction may help prevent or minimize the acute and devastating effects of SARS-CoV-2 by reducing the local inflammatory response and blocking the entry of the virus into cells. With such consideration in mind, we gathered data from dietary surveys conducted in nine European countries to explore the relationship between actual clock hour of the large dinner meal and also interval in minutes between it and sunset in the respective countries and death rate above the median rate of per one million people as an index of mortality due to COVID-19 infection. Clock time of the dinner meal varied between 16:00 and 21:00 h across the European counties sampled, and the correlation between dinner mealtime and death rate was strongly
Databáze: OpenAIRE