The isolated effect of age on the risk of COVID-19 severe outcomes: a systematic review with meta-analysis

KR Starke, D Reissig, G Petereit-Haack… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Increased age has been reported to be a factor for COVID-19 severe outcomes.
However, many studies do not consider the age dependency of comorbidities, which …

Individuals with obesity and COVID‐19: a global perspective on the epidemiology and biological relationships

BM Popkin, S Du, WD Green, MA Beck… - Obesity …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The linkage of individuals with obesity and COVID‐19 is controversial and lacks systematic
reviews. After a systematic search of the Chinese and English language literature on COVID …

[HTML][HTML] Mortality in patients with cancer and coronavirus disease 2019: a systematic review and pooled analysis of 52 studies

KS Saini, M Tagliamento, M Lambertini… - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who have underlying
malignancy have a higher mortality rate compared with those without cancer, although the …

Charlson comorbidity index and a composite of poor outcomes in COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

RAT Kuswardhani, J Henrina, R Pranata… - Diabetes & Metabolic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and aims The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting
patients with comorbidities. Therefore, thorough comorbidities assessment can help …

Infection fatality risk for SARS-CoV-2 in community dwelling population of Spain: nationwide seroepidemiological study

R Pastor-Barriuso, B Perez-Gomez, MA Hernan… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Objective To estimate the infection fatality risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), based on deaths with confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 …

Pre-existing health conditions and severe COVID-19 outcomes: an umbrella review approach and meta-analysis of global evidence

M Treskova-Schwarzbach, L Haas, S Reda, A Pilic… - BMC medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background This study applies an umbrella review approach to summarise the global
evidence on the risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes in patients with pre-existing health …

[HTML][HTML] Why the patient-made term'long covid'is needed

E Perego, F Callard, L Stras… - Wellcome Open …, 2020 - wellcomeopenresearch.org
The patient-made term 'Long Covid'is, we argue, a helpful and capacious term that is
needed to address key medical, epidemiological and socio-political challenges posed by …

[PDF][PDF] Obesity in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JSY Ho, DI Fernando, MY Chan, CH Sia - Ann Acad Med Singap, 2020 - annals.edu.sg
Objective: Obesity has been shown to be associated with adverse outcomes in viral
infections such as influenza, but previous studies on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

The impact of dementia on the clinical outcome of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

N Liu, J Sun, X Wang, M Zhao… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Background: The emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought
large challenges to dementia patients. We reviewed the existing literature on COVID-19 to …

Development and validation of a prognostic model based on comorbidities to predict COVID-19 severity: a population-based study

F Gude-Sampedro, C Fernandez-Merino… - International journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background The prognosis of patients with COVID-19 infection is uncertain. We derived and
validated a new risk model for predicting progression to disease severity, hospitalization …