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Paraskevi Katsaounou
Researcher at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Publications - 124
Citations - 5559
Paraskevi Katsaounou is an academic researcher from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Smoking cessation. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 97 publications receiving 3322 citations. Previous affiliations of Paraskevi Katsaounou include European Respiratory Society.
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Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and insomnia among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Sofia Pappa,Vasiliki Ntella,Timoleon Giannakas,Vassilis G. Giannakoulis,Eleni Papoutsi,Paraskevi Katsaounou +5 more
TL;DR: Early evidence suggests that a considerable proportion of HCWs experience mood and sleep disturbances during this outbreak, stressing the need to establish ways to mitigate mental health risks and adjust interventions under pandemic conditions.
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Complex immune dysregulation in covid-19 patients with severe respiratory failure
Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis,Mihai G. Netea,Mihai G. Netea,Nikoletta Rovina,Karolina Akinosoglou,Anastasia Antoniadou,Nikolaos Antonakos,Georgia Damoraki,Theologia Gkavogianni,Maria Evangelia Adami,Paraskevi Katsaounou,Maria Ntaganou,Magdalini Kyriakopoulou,George Dimopoulos,Ioannis Koutsodimitropoulos,Dimitrios Velissaris,Panagiotis Koufargyris,Athanassios Karageorgos,Konstantina Katrini,Vasileios Lekakis,Mihaela Lupse,Antigone Kotsaki,George Renieris,Danai Theodoulou,Vassiliki Panou,Evangelia Koukaki,Nikolaos Koulouris,Charalambos Gogos,Antonia Koutsoukou +28 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that severe respiratory failure (SRF) in COVID-19 patients is driven by a unique pattern of immune dysfunction, characterized by IL-6-mediated low HLA-DR expression and lymphopenia, associated with sustained cytokine production and hyper-inflammation.
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Antioxidants attenuate the plasma cytokine response to exercise in humans
Theodoros P. Vassilakopoulos,Maria-Helena Karatza,Paraskevi Katsaounou,Androniki Kollintza,Spyros Zakynthinos,Charis Roussos +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that in untrained humans oxidative stress is a major stimulus for exercise-induced cytokine production and that monocytes play no role in this process.
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Electronic cigarettes: a task force report from the European Respiratory Society
Robert Bals,Jeanette Boyd,Susanna Esposito,Robert F. Foronjy,Pieter S. Hiemstra,Carlos A. Jiménez-Ruiz,Paraskevi Katsaounou,Anne Lindberg,Carlos Metz,Wolfgang Schober,Avrum Spira,Francesco Blasi +11 more
TL;DR: There is not enough scientific evidence to support ECIGs as an aid to smoking cessation due to a lack of controlled trials, including those that compareECIGs with licenced stop-smoking treatments and the long-term effects of ECIG use are unknown.
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Comparison of the effects of e-cigarette vapor with cigarette smoke on lung function and inflammation in mice
Constantinos Glynos,Sofia-Iris Bibli,Sofia-Iris Bibli,Paraskevi Katsaounou,Athanasia Pavlidou,Christina Magkou,Vassiliki Karavana,Stavros Topouzis,Ioannis Kalomenidis,Spyros Zakynthinos,Andreas Papapetropoulos +10 more
TL;DR: Exposure to e-cig vapor can trigger inflammatory responses and adversely affect respiratory system mechanics and it is concluded that both e- cig vaping and conventional cigarette smoking negatively impact lung biology.