IL-17A and TNF-α as potential biomarkers for acute respiratory distress syndrome and mortality in patients with obesity and COVID-19

JJ Leija-Martinez, F Huang, BE Del-Rio-Navarro… - Medical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic and international
health emergency by the World Health Organization. Patients with obesity with COVID-19
are 7 times more likely to need invasive mechanical ventilation than are patients without
obesity (OR 7.36; 95% CI: 1.63–33.14, p= 0.021). Acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) is one of the main causes of death related to COVID-19 and is triggered by a
cytokine storm that damages the respiratory epithelium. Interleukins that cause the chronic …
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