Generally, people at higher risk of severe illness from respiratory viruses are older adults, young children, people with compromised immune systems, people with disabilities, and pregnant people.Seek medical care right away if you have risk factors for developing severe COVID-19. Treatment may ...
This article, published in Frontiers in Oncology, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on individuals with hematologic malignancies, such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia and multiple myeloma. These patients face unique challenges due to compromised immune systems caused by their diseas...
Pneumocystis jiroveci(formerly known asPneumocystis carinii) pneumonia is another form of pneumonia that usually involves both lungs. It is seen in patients with a compromised immune system, either fromchemotherapyforcancerorHIV/AIDS, and those treated with TNF (tumor necrosis factor), such as forrhe...
Children and young adults with compromised immune systems, such as those undergoing cancer treatment, may experience a prolonged period of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and the extended duration of infection may increase the incidence of mutations. This case study was...
As discussed above, a compromised immune system plays a key role in predisposing patients to developing CDI and COVID-19, and similarly, our data analysis showed cancer to be more prevalent in the CDI and COVID-19 cohort (7.56% vs. 3.48%, p < 0.001). Unsurprisingly, multiple studies surr...
The finding, from the two-yearPROSECO study, is important because blood cancer patients have compromised immune systems—either as a result of cancer, or from cancer treatments. This leaves them more vulnerable to COVID-19 than other people and raises questions over how well they respond to va...
Even a single session of moderate exercise can boost the effectiveness of vaccines in people with compromised immune systems. What’s more, regular, moderate exercise may reduce inflammation and help your immune cells regenerate regularly Examples of moderate exercise include brisk walking, steady bicycl...
Additionally, these workers may have underlying chronic health conditions and compromised immune systems that increase their vulnerability to COVID-19 infection, just as harmful coping mechanisms (i.e., alcohol/substance misuse) also might. Finally, shelter-in-place orders have confined families to ...
compromised immune systems or chronic diseases and the elderly being at high risk (https://covid19.who.int/). Despite World Health Organization (WHO) prevention guidelines intended to slow the spread of the virus, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to greatly affect human physiology and psychology...
Nonetheless, the discovery that COVID-19 vaccination elicits a response in people with compromised immune systems—even if not quite as strong a response—is encouraging news for a population that faces a high risk of serious illness. "Some of our patients have been hesitant about getting vaccina...