SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first and second pandemic waves in Spain: the ENE–COVID study

B Pérez-Gómez, R Pastor-Barriuso… - … Journal of Public …, 2023 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To describe participant characteristics associated with severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in Spain's first 2 COVID-19 waves per the Spanish …

Gastrointestinal symptoms in COVID-19 and disease severity: a Japanese registry-based retrospective cohort study

Y Matsubara, H Kiyohara, Y Mikami, K Nanki… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Background Research on whether gastrointestinal symptoms correlate with the severity of
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been inconclusive. This study aimed to clarify …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of long COVID and associated symptoms after acute SARS-COV-2 infection in ethnic minorities: A nationwide register-linked cohort study in Denmark

GF Mkoma, C Agyemang, T Benfield, M Rostila… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Ethnic minorities living in high-income countries have been disproportionately
affected by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in terms of infection rates …

[HTML][HTML] Age of first overweight and obesity, COVID-19 and long COVID in two British birth cohorts

C Bridger Staatz, D Bann, GB Ploubidis… - Journal of Epidemiology …, 2023 - Springer
Longer exposure to obesity, and thus a longer period in an inflamed state, may increase
susceptibility to infectious diseases and worsen severity. Previous cross-sectional work finds …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal trends and determinants of COVID-19 vaccine coverage and series initiation during pregnancy in Ontario, Canada, December 2020 to December …

DB Fell, E Török, AE Sprague, AK Regan, T Dhinsa… - Vaccine, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Population-based COVID-19 vaccine coverage estimates among pregnant
individuals are limited. We assessed temporal patterns in vaccine coverage (≥ 1 dose …

Interventions to promote health equity: implications for implementation science in behavioral medicine

KI Alcaraz, BR Yanez - Translational behavioral medicine, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Disparities in health persist despite the development of innovative and effective behavioral
interventions. Both behavioral medicine and implementation science are vital to improving …

Wildfire and smoke association with COVID-19 cases in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil

C Lorenz, R Libonati, LBC Belém, A Oliveira… - Public Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives In 2020, Brazil experienced two concurrent public health challenges
related to respiratory disease: wildfires and increased mortality due to the coronavirus …

Retrospective analysis of equity-based optimization for COVID-19 vaccine allocation

E Stafford, D Dimitrov, R Ceballos, G Campelia… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Marginalized racial and ethnic groups in the United States were disproportionally affected by
the COVID-19 pandemic. To study these disparities, we construct an age-and-race-stratified …

[HTML][HTML] Disparities by social determinants of health: links between Long COVID and cardiovascular disease.

A Banerjee - Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Long COVID has been defined by World Health Organization as “continuation or
development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, with these …

[HTML][HTML] Syndemic aspects between COVID-19 pandemic and social inequalities

JS Apolonio, RT da Silva Júnior… - World journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has reached all over the
world population, it has demonstrated a heterogeneous impact on different populations. The …