The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission: reducing the global burden by 2030

B Vogel, M Acevedo, Y Appelman, CNB Merz… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women. Decades of grassroots
campaigns have helped to raise awareness about the impact of cardiovascular disease in …

Pathophysiology of COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury

M Legrand, S Bell, L Forni, M Joannidis… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although respiratory failure and hypoxaemia are the main manifestations of COVID-19,
kidney involvement is also common. Available evidence supports a number of potential …

Prognosis and persistence of smell and taste dysfunction in patients with covid-19: meta-analysis with parametric cure modelling of recovery curves

BKJ Tan, R Han, JJ Zhao, NKW Tan, ESH Quah… - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Objective To clarify in patients with covid-19 the recovery rate of smell and taste, proportion
with persistent dysfunction of smell and taste, and prognostic factors associated with …

Immunosenescence and inflammaging in the aging process: age-related diseases or longevity?

A Santoro, E Bientinesi, D Monti - Ageing research reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
During aging the immune system (IS) undergoes remarkable changes that collectively are
known as immunosenescence. It is a multifactorial and dynamic phenomenon that affects …

Association of sex, age, and comorbidities with mortality in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Biswas, S Rahaman, TK Biswas, Z Haque, B Ibrahim - Intervirology, 2021 - karger.com
Introduction: Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 infection is causing
mortality in considerable proportion of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients …

The COVID-19 pandemic: a global health crisis

CA Pollard, MP Morran… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was identified as the causative agent for a series of
atypical respiratory diseases in the Hubei Province of Wuhan, China in December of 2019 …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence regarding vitamin D and risk of COVID-19 and its severity

J Mercola, WB Grant, CL Wagner - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vitamin D deficiency co-exists in patients with COVID-19. At this time, dark skin color,
increased age, the presence of pre-existing illnesses and vitamin D deficiency are features …

Viral pandemics of the last four decades: pathophysiology, health impacts and perspectives

S Roychoudhury, A Das, P Sengupta, S Dutta… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The last four decades has witnessed some of the deadliest viral pandemics with far-reaching
consequences. These include the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)(1981), Severe …

Sex-related differences in long-COVID-19 syndrome

G Pelà, M Goldoni, E Solinas, C Cavalli… - Journal of Women's …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Background: Sex differences have been demonstrated in the acute phase of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). Women (F) were found to be less prone to develop a severe …

ACE2/ADAM17/TMPRSS2 interplay may be the main risk factor for COVID-19

D Zipeto, JF Palmeira, GA Argañaraz… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has already caused hundreds of thousands of
deaths worldwide in a few months. Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and …