[HTML][HTML] Typically atypical: COVID‐19 presenting as a fall in an older adult

RE Norman, NM Stall, SK Sinha - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DISCUSSION Much of the attention regarding care of older adults with COVID‐19 has
focused on its significant mortality rate (reaching 10%‐27% for those> 85 years 6) or the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 in older adults: clinical, psychosocial, and public health considerations

JP Mills, KS Kaye, L Mody - JCI insight, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In December 2019, a new severe respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China and was
linked to a novel beta-coronavirus that likely originated from zoonotic transmission (1). As of …

The aging transcriptome and cellular landscape of the human lung in relation to SARS-CoV-2

RD Chow, M Majety, S Chen - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Age is a major risk factor for severe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Here, we
interrogate the transcriptional features and cellular landscape of the aging human lung. By …

Older people and COVID-19 isolation, risk and ageism

J Brooke, D Jackson - Journal of clinical nursing, 2020 - open-access.bcu.ac.uk
Internationally, health authorities and governments are warning older people that they are at
a higher risk of more serious and possible fatal illness associated with COVID‐19. Mortality …

Association between age and clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19

Y Liu, B Mao, S Liang, JW Yang, HW Lu… - European …, 2020 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The rapid outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a matter of
international concern as the disease is spreading fast [1, 2]. Considering that the contagious …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: risk accumulation among biologically and socially vulnerable older populations

A Calderón-Larrañaga, S Dekhtyar, DL Vetrano… - Ageing research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Emerging data show that the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 are being
disproportionately borne by individuals who are not only biologically, but also socially …

Accelerated biological aging in COVID-19 patients

X Cao, W Li, T Wang, D Ran, V Davalos… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronological age is a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19. Previous
findings indicate that epigenetic age could be altered in viral infection. However, the …

Retracted: COVID‐19 mortality and its predictors in the elderly: A systematic review

O Dadras, SA SeyedAlinaghi, A Karimi… - Health science …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims Older people have higher rates of comorbidities and may
experience more severe inflammatory responses; therefore, are at higher risk of death …

Older adults and Covid‐19: the Most vulnerable, the hardest hit

T Powell, E Bellin, AR Ehrlich - Hastings Center Report, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Older adults in the United States have been the age group hardest hit by the Covid
pandemic. They have suffered a disproportionate number of deaths; Covid patients eighty …

Risk factors for predicting mortality in elderly patients with COVID-19: A review of clinical data in China

C Leung - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2020 - Elsevier
While elderly patients are at high risk of fatality, research concerning COVID-19 has largely
been done on clarifying the clinical features. As such, the present work aims to identify risk …