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It is possible that disadvantaged groups might have disproportionately high levels of resource loss, and hence worse mental distress and slower remissions. The inequity issues about resource losses and their relationships with mental distress due to COVID-19 need to become a focus of future studies....
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There is meta-analytical evidence that individuals with obesity are not only at greater risk of COVID-19 infection but also of having a worse prognosis (higher risk of severe disease and mortality) than their normal-weight peers [52,53,54]. Several mechanisms could contribute to the detrimental...
There are various reasons COVID-19 is killing black people at six times the rate of white people, including a lack of access to health care, and poor environmental conditions in black communities.
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The measure of hospital burden we used considered acute hospital admissions at and around the time of admission as a proxy for bed occupancy. Whilst no single accepted measure of hospital burden exists, overnight bed occupancy is a widely used metric14, and guidance on bed occupancy was issued...
The sleep indexes (i.e., PSQI) of COVID-19+ (7.2 ± 3.2) were significantly worse than those of COVID-19− (5.4 ± 2.6) (p < 0.001). However, since having SAS contributed significantly to the impaired sleep index of the entire COVID-19+ group (COVID-19+/SAS+:...
I had no appetite, felt so run down, and couldn’t wait to go to bed with the hopes that I would feel better on Sunday. I slept and sweat for a solid twelve or so hours and somehow managed to wake up feeling worse. Sunday was a doozy of a day and my nausea was at an all ti...