COPD epidemiologyThe 2020 coronavirus pandemic has been particularly difficult for people living with chronic respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is associated with greater severity of COVID-19 infection and increased mortality.1 Interventions such as social ...
Fig. 1. Percentage of hospitalization and mortality by age among COVID-19 patients, according to data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [9]. Waiting for the vaccine distribution, the need of the moment is to consolidate as much information as possible on COVID-19 in order to ...
infection was performed. It has been documented that there was a significant correlation between comorbidities, including chronic respiratory disease, chronic cardiac disease, and morbid obesity with the disease severity and intensive care unit (ICU) admission [52]. Another cohort study of 7337 COVID-...
COPDExacerbationNational health insuranceHIRAMedical costThe COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected global health system, significantly altering not only the acute management of viral infection, but also management strategies for chronic diseases. This study aimed to investigate the impact of COVID-19...
Oxford Vaccine's 'Encouraging' Immune Response The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine produced an "encouraging" immune response, according to phase 2 data on 560 healthy adults published inThe Lancet.It was also safe and well tolerated,the research team reported. ...
Testing and management criteria and protocols have been adopted. Extensive efforts are underway for finding a treatment of the disease and developing a vaccine against it. A number of vaccines are available even in markets in different countries. More and more ways of personal protection, prevention...
[128]. ACE2 expression was higher in bronchial epithelium of overweight/obese COPD patients compared to patients with BMI < 25 kg/m2[129]. Elevated expression of both ACE2 and TMPRSS2 has also been shown in obese human subjects [130]. Further, a possible regulation of ACE2 expression...
The treatment of COVID-19 patients has proven to be a challenging task due to the lack of a clinically proven treatment or SARS-CoV-2 vaccine as well as the quick spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection.98 Given the unprecedented nature of the pandemic, researchers are evaluating the effects of SA...
The highly contagious double mutant strain B.1.617 with the key structural mutations Glu484Gln and Leu452Arg is less influenced by the current vaccine doses and is responsible for the second wave COVID-19 in India (Cherian et al. 2021). Additionally, the presence of the triple mutant ...
A systematic review of Vaccine Breakthrough Infections by SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant 2022, International Journal of Biological Sciences Effect of green space environment on air pollutants PM2.5, PM10, CO, O<inf>3</inf>, and incidence and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 in highly green and less-green...