Comorbidities and increased mortality of COVID-19 among the elderly: A systematic review

A Péterfi, Á Mészáros, Z Szarvas, M Pénzes… - Physiology …, 2022 - akjournals.com
Purpose The purpose of current review is to conduct a systematic overview of articles
published between 2019 and 2021 on the relationship of comorbidities and mortality due to …

COVID-19 related mortality and spread of disease in long-term care: a living systematic review of emerging evidence

M Salcher-Konrad, A Jhass, H Naci, M Tan, Y El-Tawil… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background Policy responses to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-
term care (LTC) require robust and timely evidence on mortality and spread of the disease in …

[HTML][HTML] Mortality in an Italian nursing home during COVID-19 pandemic: correlation with gender, age, ADL, vitamin D supplementation, and limitations of the …

B Cangiano, LM Fatti, L Danesi, G Gazzano… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic caused an increased mortality in nursing homes due
to its quick spread and the age-related high lethality. Results: We observed a two-month …

Novel coronavirus epidemic in the Hungarian population, a cross-sectional nationwide survey to support the exit policy in Hungary

B Merkely, AJ Szabó, A Kosztin, E Berényi… - Geroscience, 2020 - Springer
After months of restrictive containment efforts to fight the severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic, European countries are planning to reopen. To …

The psychological consequences of the COVID-19 on residents and staff in nursing homes

S Mo, J Shi - Work, aging and retirement, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In this commentary, we overview the existing research on psychological consequences
caused by COVID-19 for both residents and staff in the nursing homes. We identify …

The social support networks of elderly people in Slovenia during the Covid-19 pandemic

M Cugmas, A Ferligoj, T Kogovšek, Z Batagelj - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Population ageing requires society to adjust by ensuring additional types of services and
assistance for elderly people. These may be provided by either organized services and …

The impact of comorbidities and obesity on the severity and outcome of COVID-19 in hospitalized Patients—A retrospective study in a Hungarian hospital

É Nagy, V Cseh, I Barcs, E Ludwig - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Patients with comorbidities and obesity are more likely to be hospitalized with coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), to have a higher incidence of severe pneumonia and to also …

Early multidrug treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) and reduced mortality among nursing home (or outpatient/ambulatory) residents

PE Alexander, R Armstrong, G Fareed, J Lotus… - Medical hypotheses, 2021 - Elsevier
The outbreak of COVID-19 from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has spread all over the world with tremendous morbidity and mortality in the elderly …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 infection in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: From pathophysiology to therapy. Mini-review

M Fekete, Z Szarvas, V Fazekas-Pongor… - Physiology …, 2022 - akjournals.com
Introduction Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are a vulnerable
group in terms of the outcome of coronavirus infection in relation to their disease or its …

Co-infections in COVID-19 patients and correlation with mortality rate. Minireview

Á Fehér, Z Szarvas, A Lehoczki, M Fekete… - Physiology …, 2022 - akjournals.com
Purpose The goal of our review was to gather information on the most important community-
acquired and hospital-acquired co-infections among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …