Association Between Dietary Habit Changes and COVID-19 Prophylaxis During the Pandemic Among Japanese Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients
Comparing before and after the pandemic, there was a shift from eating out to eating in for dinner. However, the frequency of eating takeout played a role in preventing COVID-19, suggesting that the person preparing the meal may be a more important factor than where the meal is eaten when the main route of infection is household transmission.
Authors
- Tomochika Murakami
- Toshitaka Shin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7015-4281)
- Hiromitsu Mimata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9985-0966)
- Shinji Hirakawa
- Tadasuke Ando (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1470-6517)
- Toru Inoue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8290-0322)
- Yoshitsugu Fujita
Institutions
- Oita University (JP)
- Unisys (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cureus
- Published
- 2024-12-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.75489
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.28