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  • ROCÍO R. GARCÍA-ABADILLO

    Madrid

Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - 09:15

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To the rosary of symptoms linked to the coronavirus could be added another: oropharyngeal dysphagia, that is, the difficulty in swallowing food and liquids. And associated with it, malnutrition, malnutrition and sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass), according to a study conducted among 265 people in Barcelona. In addition to poor quality of life - those who cannot swallow have to be fed through probes directly to the stomach or esophagus - it can cause death by passing food to the lungs and cause aspiration pneumonia.

It usually affects people with otorhinolaryngological diseases, disease

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