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Healthy lifestyle may reduce poor Covid outcome risk - HIQA

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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

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