Risk factors of severe COVID-19: a review of host, viral and environmental factors

L Zsichla, V Müller - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The clinical course and outcome of COVID-19 are highly variable, ranging from
asymptomatic infections to severe disease and death. Understanding the risk factors of …

Long COVID, neuropsychiatric disorders, psychotropics, present and future

SW Tang, BE Leonard, DM Helmeste - Acta neuropsychiatrica, 2022 - cambridge.org
Long COVID refers to the lingering symptoms which persist or appear after the acute illness.
The dominant long COVID symptoms in the two years since the pandemic began (2020 …

Excess suicides in Brazil: Inequalities according to age groups and regions during the COVID-19 pandemic

JDY Orellana, MLP de Souza - International journal of social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed more than six million direct
deaths. Low-and middle-income countries, such Brazil, were severely hit, not only due to …

Depression pathophysiology: Astrocyte mitochondrial melatonergic pathway as crucial hub

G Anderson - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is widely accepted as having a heterogenous
pathophysiology involving a complex mixture of systemic and CNS processes. A …

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-COVID-19 hospital mortality in patients with schizophrenia: a nationwide population-based cohort study

L Boyer, G Fond, V Pauly, V Orléans, P Auquier… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
It remains unknown to what degree resource prioritization toward SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV)
coronavirus (COVID-19) cases had disrupted usual acute care for non-COVID-19 patients …

Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review

M Harris, J Hart, O Bhattacharya… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Identifying SARS-CoV-2 infection risk factors allows targeted public health and
social measures (PHSM). As new, more transmissible variants of concern (VoC) emerge …

Vaccination rates against COVID-19 in patients with severe mental illness attending community mental health services in rural Greece

V Peritogiannis, I Drakatos, P Gioti… - International Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) may be at increased risk for COVID-
19-related severe morbidity and mortality. There is limited research on the vaccination rates …

[HTML][HTML] Are people with disabilities at higher risk of COVID-19-related mortality?: a systematic review and meta-analysis

H Kuper, T Smythe - Public Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives To undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the relative risk
of COVID-19-related mortality among people with disabilities compared to people without …

Heightened COVID-19 mortality in people with severe mental illness persists after vaccination: a cohort study of greater manchester residents

L Hassan, C Sawyer, N Peek, K Lovell… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Hypothesis Previous studies show that people with severe mental
illness (SMI) are at higher risk of COVID-19 mortality, however limited evidence exists …

Serious mental illness and in-hospital mortality among hospitalized patients with acute COVID-19: A large-database analysis in Japan

Y Tokuda, PB Barnett, S Sanji, Y Takaizumi… - General Hospital …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective The association of serious mental illness (affective or non-affective psychotic
disorders) with higher mortality in patients infected with acute coronavirus disease 2019 …