Post-COVID-19 metabolic syndrome: a new challenge for nursing care
Invest. educ. enferm
;
41(1): 7-10, 27 feb 2023.
Article
in English
| LILACS, BDENF, COLNAL
| ID: biblio-1418362
ABSTRACT
In crisis scenarios, the professions that have the essence of caring for are highlighted. In this sense, during the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing played a key role in the identification, testing, care and rehabilitation of patients.(1) It was through this profession that many clients were fully assisted in the process of illness/rehabilitation, revealing the importance of the category for the health system; a fact that also persists in a post-COVID scenario. COVID-19 led to the collapse of global health with high rates of mortality and hospital morbidity, generating an estimated 18.2 million deaths around the world.(2) Nevertheless, it is known that COVID-19 is a respiratory disease with vascular implications that interact with cardiometabolic factors such as oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, insulin resistance, atherosclerosis, overweight, increased body fat and alterations in the microbiome, leading to systemic complications and death.(3)
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Nursing
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Invest. educ. enferm
Journal subject:
Education
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Nursing
Year:
2023
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia/BR
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University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony/BR
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