Immune cell population and cytokine profiling suggest age dependent differences in the response to SARS-CoV-2 infection

L Aragon, A Iribarren-López, A Alberro… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Aging population is at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, including hospitalization
and death. In this work, to further understand the relationship between host age-related …

Defining a 'risk group'and ageism in the era of COVID-19

A Rahman, Y Jahan - Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
By classifying older adults, based on chronological age, as a higher risk group of
coronavirus disease, 2019 is unacceptable and unfair-potentially reinforcing ageism. This …

[HTML][HTML] Caring for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

V Prendki, G Tiseo, M Falcone - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Elderly patients represent a high-risk group with increased risk of death from
COVID-19. Despite the number of published studies, several unmet needs in care for older …

New view on older adults with COVID-19: comments on “SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 in older adults: what we may expect regarding pathogenesis, immune …

G Xu, M Ye, J Zhao, F Liu, W Ma - GeroScience, 2020 - Springer
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COIVD-19) was first reported in December 2019 in China (Wang
et al. 2020) and spread worldwide some months later. As of May 18, there are more than …

Role of senescence and aging in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease

SM Lynch, G Guo, DS Gibson, AJ Bjourson, TS Rai - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in a global pandemic associated with substantial …

Age, host response, and mortality in COVID-19

VC Veiga, AB Cavalcanti - European Respiratory Journal, 2023 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Extract Increased age is a strong risk factor for mortality in patients with coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19)[1, 2]. Risk of death increases 1.5 times for every 10 years [1]. Among the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 vaccination and frailty in older adults

LK Chen - Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic strongly impacts the whole world in various dimensions (Wang,
2020), and studies have shown the high mortality risk of older patients with COVID-19 …

The age distribution of mortality from novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) suggests no large difference of susceptibility by age

R Omori, R Matsuyama, Y Nakata - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Among Italy, Spain, and Japan, the age distributions of COVID-19 mortality show
only small variation even though the number of deaths per country shows large variation. To …

[HTML][HTML] Geriatric practice during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic

T Omura, A Araki, K Shigemoto… - Geriatrics & Gerontology …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
2 Chen N, Zhou M, Dong X et al. Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of
2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study. Lancet 2020; 395 …

Mortality and survival in nonagenarians during the COVID-19 pandemic: unstable equilibrium of aging

DA Kashtanova, VV Erema, MS Gusakova… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Aging puts the human body under an immense stress and makes it extremely
susceptible to many diseases, often leading to poor outcomes and even death. Long-living …