Background Obesity is an established risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes. The mechanistic underpinnings of this association are not well-understood. Objective To …
MC Pelle, I Zaffina, S Lucà, V Forte, V Trapanese… - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus found in Wuhan (China) at the end of 2019, is the etiological agent of the current pandemic that is a heterogeneous disease, named …
A Seitz, P Ong - International Journal of …, 2022 - internationaljournalofcardiology.com
The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has dominated everyday life around the globe for almost two years now. While effective COVID-19 vaccines became available …
Background Recent studies have shown that obesity is associated with the severity of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We reviewed clinical studies to clarify the obesity …
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been led to a pandemic emergency. So far …
B Martínez-Salazar, M Holwerda, C Stüdle… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first identified in December 2019 as a novel respiratory pathogen and is the causative agent of Corona Virus …
L Palaiodimos, R Ali, HO Teo, S Parthasarathy… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Severe obesity increases the risk for negative outcomes in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Our objectives were to investigate the effect of BMI on in-hospital …
F Nappi, SS Avtaar Singh - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the hallmarks of the SARS-CoV-2 infection has been the inflammatory process that played a role in its pathogenesis, resulting in mortality within susceptible individuals. This …
V Montiel, I Lobysheva, L Gerard, M Vermeersch… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background SARS-CoV-2 targets endothelial cells through the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor. The resulting endothelial injury induces widespread thrombosis and …