ABSTRACT
A global problem in all countries is the aging of the population due to the lengthening of the life span. The number of age-related diseases, including sarcopenia, rises with increasing age. People of the elderly and senile age were especially vulnerable in terms of the number of infections, the severity of the course of the disease, the number of deaths, for 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic requires restrictive measures on the movement of citizens up to the introduction of a lockdown. This entails a decrease in physical activity and a rapid progression of sarcopenia, which worsens the prognosis of COVID-19 in this category of citizens, not only in the acute stage of the disease, but also in the following months due to an exacerbation of cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases.Copyright © 2022 Stavropol State Medical University. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
A global problem in all countries is the aging of the population due to the lengthening of the life span. The number of age-related diseases, including sarcopenia, rises with increasing age. People of the elderly and senile age were especially vulnerable in terms of the number of infections, the severity of the course of the disease, the number of deaths, for 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic requires restrictive measures on the movement of citizens up to the introduction of a lockdown. This entails a decrease in physical activity and a rapid progression of sarcopenia, which worsens the prognosis of COVID-19 in this category of citizens, not only in the acute stage of the disease, but also in the following months due to an exacerbation of cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases.Copyright © 2022 Stavropol State Medical University. All rights reserved.