Global prevalence and effect of comorbidities and smoking status on severity and mortality of COVID-19 in association with age and gender: a systematic review, meta …

S Chenchula, K Vidyasagar, S Pathan, S Sharma… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
A COVID-19 patient often presents with multiple comorbidities and is associated with
adverse outcomes. A comprehensive assessment of the prevalence of comorbidities in …

Post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis: An ongoing concern

NN Alrajhi - Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 rapidly spread across the globe causing over 6 million deaths and major …

Public awareness and knowledge of sepsis: a cross-sectional survey of adults in Canada

J Parsons Leigh, R Brundin-Mather, SJ Moss, A Nickel… - Critical Care, 2022 - Springer
Background Sepsis is a life-threatening complication of the body's response to infection. The
financial, medical, and psychological costs of sepsis to individuals and to the healthcare …

Prevalence of overweight and obesity and their effect on COVID‐19 severity and hospitalization among younger than 50 years versus older than 50 years population …

S Chenchula, S Sharma, M Tripathi, M Chavan… - Obesity …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cohort studies have shown that both overweight and obesity have their impact by increasing
hospitalization with COVID‐19. We conducted a systematic literature search in PubMed …

An improved epidemiological-unscented Kalman filter (hybrid SEIHCRDV-UKF) model for the prediction of COVID-19. Application on real-time data

VE Papageorgiou, G Tsaklidis - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
The prevalence of COVID-19 has been the most serious health challenge of the 21th century
to date, concerning national health systems on a daily basis, since December 2019 when it …

National early warning score (NEWS) 2 predicts hospital mortality from COVID-19 patients

E Wibisono, U Hadi, MV Arfijanto, M Rusli… - Annals of Medicine …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: COVID-19 has a high risk of mortality, especially in patients with comorbid
diseases such as cardiac disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, and …

Normal high-sensitivity cardiac troponin for ruling-out inpatient mortality in acute COVID-19

A Liu, R Hammond, K Chan, C Chukwuenweniwe… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Assessment of inpatient mortality risk in COVID-19 patients is important for
guiding clinical decision-making. High sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) is a biomarker …

Persistence is key: unresolved immune dysfunction is lethal in both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 sepsis

AY An, A Baghela, P Zhang, R Falsafi, AH Lee… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Severe COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 pulmonary sepsis share
pathophysiological, immunological, and clinical features, suggesting that severe COVID-19 …

Dynamic of serum TWEAK levels in critically ill COVID-19 male patients

M Mikacic, M Kumric, M Baricevic, D Tokic… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although the number of cases and mortality of COVID-19 are seemingly declining, clinicians
endeavor to establish indicators and predictors of such responses in order to optimize …

Increased levels of galectin-3 in critical COVID-19

I Nikitopoulou, AG Vassiliou, N Athanasiou… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Severe COVID-19 is related to hyperinflammation and multiple organ injury, including
respiratory failure, thus requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Galectin-3, a …