Mechanisms underlying sex differences in autoimmunity

DL Fairweather, DJ Beetler, EJ McCabe… - The Journal of clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
Autoimmune diseases are a leading cause of disability worldwide. Most autoimmune
diseases occur more often in women than men, with rheumatic autoimmune diseases being …

Autoimmune myocarditis, old dogs and new tricks

T Won, EJ Song, HM Kalinoski, JJ Moslehi… - Circulation …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Autoimmunity significantly contributes to the pathogenesis of myocarditis, underscored by its
increased frequency in autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and …

Incidence of new-onset hypertension before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a 7-year longitudinal cohort study in a large population

V Trimarco, R Izzo, D Pacella, U Trama, MV Manzi… - BMC medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background While the augmented incidence of diabetes after COVID-19 has been widely
confirmed, controversial results are available on the risk of developing hypertension during …

Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis

J Rose, N Hulscher… - Therapeutic Advances in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Following the roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2, Moderna mRNA-
1273, and Janssen Ad26. COV2. S coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) injections in the …

Reconstituted extracellular vesicles from human platelets decrease viral myocarditis in mice

DJ Beetler, KA Bruno, MM Watkins, V Xu, I Chekuri… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Patients with viral myocarditis are at risk of sudden death and may progress to dilated
cardiomyopathy (DCM). Currently, no disease‐specific therapies exist to treat viral …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates by Rural and Urban Areas: Cross-Sectional Observational Study

W Dong, Y Miao, Z Shen, W Zhang… - JMIR Public Health …, 2024 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background Vaccination plays an important role in preventing COVID-19 infection and
reducing the severity of the disease. There are usually differences in vaccination rates …

The COVID-19 inflammation and high mortality mechanism trigger

S Stróż, P Kosiorek, A Stasiak-Barmuta - Immunogenetics, 2024 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) lasted from March 2020 to May 2023, infecting over 689 million and causing …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac involvement due to COVID-19: insights from imaging and histopathology

VO Puntmann, A Shchendrygina… - European Cardiology …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lingering cardiac symptoms are increasingly recognised complications of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection, now referred to as post-acute cardiovascular …

COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system: a study of pathophysiology and interpopulation variability

Y Zhao, X Han, C Li, Y Liu, J Cheng… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in humans
can lead to various degrees of tissue and organ damage, of which cardiovascular system …

[HTML][HTML] “When,”“where,” and “how” of SARS-CoV-2 infection affects the human cardiovascular system: a narrative review

NG Kounis, C Gogos, C de Gregorio… - Balkan Medical …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the novel severe acute
respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Several explanations for the development of …