Is diet partly responsible for differences in COVID-19 death rates between and within countries?

Jean Bousquet; Josep M. Anto; Guido Iaccarino; Wienczyslawa Czarlewski; Tari Haahtela; Aram Anto; Cezmi A. Akdis; Hubert Blain; G. Walter Canonica; Victoria Cardona; Alvaro A. Cruz; Maddalena Illario; Juan Carlos Ivancevich; Marek Jutel; Ludger Klimek; Piotr Kuna; Daniel Laune; Désirée Larenas-Linnemann; Joaquim Mullol; Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos; Oliver Pfaar; Boleslaw Samolinski; Arunas Valiulis; Arzu Yorgancioglu; Torsten Zuberbier; ARIA group

doi:10.1186/s13601-020-00323-0

Is diet partly responsible for differences in COVID-19 death rates between and within countries?

Jean Bousquet, Josep M. Anto, Guido Iaccarino, Wienczyslawa Czarlewski, Tari Haahtela, Aram Anto, Cezmi A. Akdis, Hubert Blain, G. Walter Canonica, Victoria Cardona, Alvaro A. Cruz, Maddalena Illario, Juan Carlos Ivancevich, Marek Jutel, Ludger Klimek, Piotr Kuna, Daniel Laune, Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, Joaquim Mullol, Nikolaos G. PapadopoulosOliver Pfaar, Boleslaw Samolinski, Arunas Valiulis, Arzu Yorgancioglu, Torsten Zuberbier, ARIA group

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Abstract

Reported COVID-19 deaths in Germany are relatively low as compared to many European countries. Among the several explanations proposed, an early and large testing of the population was put forward. Most current debates on COVID-19 focus on the differences among countries, but little attention has been given to regional differences and diet. The low-death rate European countries (e.g. Austria, Baltic States, Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, Poland, Slovakia) have used different quarantine and/or confinement times and methods and none have performed as many early tests as Germany. Among other factors that may be significant are the dietary habits. It seems that some foods largely used in these countries may reduce angiotensin-converting enzyme activity or are anti-oxidants. Among the many possible areas of research, it might be important to understand diet and angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) levels in populations with different COVID-19 death rates since dietary interventions may be of great benefit.

Original language	English
Article number	16
Pages (from-to)	1-7
Number of pages	7
Journal	Clinical and Translational Allergy
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-020-00323-0
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Copyright the Author(s) 2020. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

A correction exists for this article and can be found in Clinical and Translational Allergy (2020) Vol 10 art. 44 at doi: 10.1186/s13601-020-00351-w

Keywords

Angiotensin-converting enzyme
Antioxidant
Coronavirus
Diet
Food

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Bousquet, J., Anto, J. M., Iaccarino, G., Czarlewski, W., Haahtela, T., Anto, A., Akdis, C. A., Blain, H., Canonica, G. W., Cardona, V., Cruz, A. A., Illario, M., Ivancevich, J. C., Jutel, M., Klimek, L., Kuna, P., Laune, D., Larenas-Linnemann, D., Mullol, J., ... ARIA group (2020). Is diet partly responsible for differences in COVID-19 death rates between and within countries? Clinical and Translational Allergy, 10(1), 1-7. [16]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-020-00323-0

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