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 …

Aging accompanied by several age-related complications, is a multifaceted inevitable
biological progression involving various genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. The …

Background–COVID-19 is a global challenge to healthcare. Obesity is common in patients
with COVID-19 and seems to aggravate disease prognosis. In this review we explore the link …

Fifty years ago, Ashbaugh and colleagues defined for the first time the acute respiratory
distress syndrome (ARDS), one among the most challenging clinical condition of the critical …

The body of knowledge on alcohol use and communicable diseases has been growing in
recent years. Using a narrative review approach, this paper discusses alcohol's role in the …

Alcohol misuse is long established as a contributor to the pathophysiology of the lung. The
intersection of multi-organ responses to alcohol-mediated tissue injury likely contributes to …

SARS-CoV-2 infection leading to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused more
than 762 million infections worldwide, with 10–30% of patients suffering from post-acute …

Macrophages residing in various tissue types are unique in terms of their anatomical
locations, ontogenies, developmental pathways, gene expression patterns, and …

Studies have focused on the effects of chronic alcohol consumption and the mechanisms of
tissue injury underlying alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis, with less focus on the …

Globally, an estimated 107 million people have an alcohol use disorder (AUD) leading to 2.8
million premature deaths each year. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death …