COVID-19 mortality risk for older men and women

ND Yanez, NS Weiss, JA Romand, MM Treggiari - BMC public health, 2020 - Springer
Background Case-fatality from COVID-19 has been reported to be relatively high in patients
age 65 years or older. We sought to determine the age-specific rates of COVID-19 mortality …

Age-specific COVID-19 case-fatality rate: no evidence of changes over time

C Signorelli, A Odone - International journal of public health, 2020 - Springer
More than 5 months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus
infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic, and almost 900,000 deaths …

Age-related risk factors and complications of patients with COVID-19: a population-based retrospective study

H Zhang, Y Wu, Y He, X Liu, M Liu, Y Tang, X Li… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective: To study the differences in clinical characteristics, risk factors, and complications
across age-groups among the inpatients with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Estimating older adult mortality from COVID-19

A Sharma - The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objectives The purpose of this study was to employ simulations to model the probability of
mortality from COVID-19 (ie, coronavirus) for older adults in the United States given at best …

Age differences in clinical features and outcomes in patients with COVID-19, Jiangsu, China: a retrospective, multicentre cohort study

H Luo, S Liu, Y Wang, PA Phillips-Howard, S Ju… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To determine the age-specific clinical presentations and incidence of adverse
outcomes among patients with COVID-19 in Jiangsu, China. Design and setting …

There is nothing new under the sun: Ageism and intergenerational tension in the age of the COVID-19 outbreak

L Ayalon - International psychogeriatrics, 2020 - cambridge.org
At the time of this writing, 203 countries and territories have been affected by the COVID-19
outbreak (Worldometer, 2020 a). Older adults, in particular, are negatively impacted by this …

The COVID-19 pandemic: does our early life environment, life trajectory and socioeconomic status determine disease susceptibility and severity?

C Holuka, MP Merz, SB Fernandes… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
A poor socioeconomic environment and social adversity are fundamental determinants of
human life span, well-being and health. Previous influenza pandemics showed that …

Evidence for biological age acceleration and telomere shortening in COVID-19 survivors

A Mongelli, V Barbi, M Gottardi Zamperla… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The SARS-CoV-2 infection determines the COVID-19 syndrome characterized, in the worst
cases, by severe respiratory distress, pulmonary and cardiac fibrosis, inflammatory cytokine …

Age-dependent risks of incidence and mortality of COVID-19 in Hubei Province and other parts of China

H Li, S Wang, F Zhong, W Bao, Y Li, L Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic of early 2020 poses an enormous challenge
to global public health. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the virus has …

Age, frailty and diabetes–triple jeopardy for vulnerability to COVID-19 infection

AJ Sinclair, AH Abdelhafiz - EClinicalMedicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
In December 2019, a pneumonia like illness was first reported in Wuhan-China caused by a
new coronavirus named corona virus disease À2019 (COVID-19) which then spread to …