Maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, being Vitamin D sufficient, moderating alcohol consumption and not smoking all have beneficial effects on general health and may reduce the risk of poor outcomes from Covid-19, the health watchdog has said.
It published its advice to the National Public Health Emergency Team on public health interventions and modifiable health-related risk factors to prevent Covid-19 or to reduce the risk of serious disease.
The Health Information & Quality Authority examined 46 studies which focused on modifiable health-related risk factors and found mixed results reported.
Interventions considered included drug (excluding vaccines) and non-drug interventions. HIQA found that there was a lack of high quality