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cord-300192-fgueg4mo	Richardson, David P.	Nutritional status of micronutrients as a possible and modifiable risk factor for COVID-19: a UK perspective	2020-08-20		.txt	text/plain	5743	232	38	Recent scientific evidence has indicated that the elderly have increased risk of COVID-19 infections, with over 70s and 80s being hardest hit – especially residents of care homes and in clinical settings, ethnic minorities, people who work indoors and those who are overweight and obese. Many of the risk factors identified so far that are related to viral infections and deaths from COVID-19 have underlying associations with nutritional status and specific essential nutrients that are known to contribute to the normal functions of the immune system. Furthermore, consumption of excessive quantities of some micronutrients can have adverse metabolic and health effects, and total intakes of each nutrient from all food and food supplement sources must take into account the tolerable upper safe level set by expert scientific committees such as European Food Safety Authority (78) , the Food and Nutrition Board/Institute of Medicine in the USA (31, 47, 79) and the UK Expert Vitamin and Mineral Group (80) .	./cache/cord-300192-fgueg4mo.txt	./txt/cord-300192-fgueg4mo.txt