Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2021 Feb 7;202:105973. Epub 2021 Feb 7.
Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.
Iran J Allergy Asthma Immunol 2021 Feb 11;20(1):46-66. Epub 2021 Feb 11.
Department of Biostatistics and Social Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread rapidly all over the world in late 2019 and caused critical illness and death in some infected patients. This study aimed at examining several laboratory factors, especially inflammatory and immunological mediators, to identify severity and mortality associated biomarkers. Ninety-three hospitalized patients with confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were classified based on disease severity. Read More
Iran J Allergy Asthma Immunol 2021 Feb 11;20(1):11-23. Epub 2021 Feb 11.
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran AND Cellular, and Molecular Biology Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran AND Department of Pathology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus spread from Wuhan, China, in 2019 and is spreading rapidly around the world. COVID-19 victims are almost associated with cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other underlying diseases. Concerning the high prevalence of these disorders, widespread mortality threatens global society, and its fatality rate may increase with increasing COVID-19 prevalence in countries with older populations. Read More
Lancet Psychiatry 2021 Feb 24. Epub 2021 Feb 24.
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Wellcome-DBT India Alliance, Sangath, New Delhi, India.
Most of the global population live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), which have historically received a small fraction of global resources for mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly in many of these countries. This Review examines the mental health implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in LMICs in four parts. Read More
Int J Clin Pract 2021 Feb 27:e14116. Epub 2021 Feb 27.
Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
Backgrounds: SARS-CoV-2 is affecting different countries all over the world, with significant variation in infection-rate and death-ratio. We have previously shown a presence of a possible relationship between different variables including the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, average age, gender, and malaria treatment, and the rate of spread, severity, and mortality of COVID-19 disease. This paper focuses on developing machine learning models for this relationship. Read More
Eur J Clin Invest 2021 Feb 27:e13529. Epub 2021 Feb 27.
Dr. rer. nat. Hermann Fuchs, Nuclear and Medical Physics, Heidelberg, Germany.
In the spring 2020 wave of the Covid-19 pandemic many countries suffered from a fast exponential rise of daily infection numbers, clearly visible in logarithmic scale as steep linear rise. Most governments counteracted with severe obligatory restrictions of social life, vulgo "lockdowns", in order to attenuate the steepness of rise or even bend the infection curve downward. Finally it went down, but whether this was actually due to lockdowns was widely discussed. Read More