Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19: systematic review and critical appraisal

L Wynants, B Van Calster, GS Collins, RD Riley… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Objective To review and appraise the validity and usefulness of published and preprint
reports of prediction models for prognosis of patients with covid-19, and for detecting people …

Diabetes, hypertension, body mass index, smoking and COVID-19-related mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

Y Mahamat-Saleh, T Fiolet, ME Rebeaud, M Mulot… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives We conducted a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of observational
studies to investigate the association between diabetes, hypertension, body mass index …

The relevance of a physical active lifestyle and physical fitness on immune defense: mitigating disease burden, with focus on COVID-19 consequences

TO Filgueira, A Castoldi, LER Santos… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a fast spreading
virus leading to the development of Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19). Severe and …

Explainable artificial intelligence methods in combating pandemics: A systematic review

F Giuste, W Shi, Y Zhu, T Naren, M Isgut… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the myriad peer-reviewed papers demonstrating novel Artificial Intelligence (AI)-
based solutions to COVID-19 challenges during the pandemic, few have made a significant …

Hospital load and increased COVID-19 related mortality in Israel

H Rossman, T Meir, J Somer, S Shilo, R Gutman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The spread of Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has led to many healthcare systems
being overwhelmed by the rapid emergence of new cases. Here, we study the ramifications …

Socioeconomic inequalities associated with mortality for COVID-19 in Colombia: a cohort nationwide study

MP Cifuentes, LA Rodriguez-Villamizar… - J Epidemiol …, 2021 - jech.bmj.com
Background After 8 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin American countries have some
of the highest rates in COVID-19 mortality. Despite being one of the most unequal regions of …

COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status

C Terrier, DL Chen, M Sutter - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
COVID-19 has had worse health, education, and labor market effects on groups with low
socioeconomic status (SES) than on those with high SES. Little is known, however, about …

COVID-19 pandemic as a risk factor for the reactivation of herpes viruses

MD Maldonado, J Romero-Aibar… - Epidemiology & …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The appearance on the skin of herpes virus lesions, concomitantly with the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, leads us to suspect an underlying infection with severe …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccine effectiveness of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 against COVID-19 in a socially vulnerable community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a test-negative design study

OT Ranzani, AAB Silva, IT Peres, BBP Antunes… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To estimate vaccine effectiveness after the first and second dose of ChAdOx1
nCoV-19 against symptomatic COVID-19 and infection in a socially vulnerable community in …

Measuring misclassification of Covid-19 as garbage codes: Results of investigating 1,365 deaths and implications for vital statistics in Brazil

EB França, LH Ishitani, DMX de Abreu… - PLOS Global Public …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The purpose of this article is to quantify the amount of misclassification of the Coronavirus
Disease-2019 (COVID-19) mortality occurring in hospitals and other health facilities in …