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Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study.

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Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used univariable and multivariable logistic regression methods to explore the risk factors associated with in-hospital death, including older age, high SOFA score and d-dimer greater than 1 μg/mL.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2020-03-28 and is currently open access. It has received 20189 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cohort study & Retrospective cohort study.

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Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in COVID-19.

TL;DR: The vascular endothelium is an active paracrine, endocrine, and Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in COVID-19 and recruitment of immune cells can result in widespread endothelial dysfunction associated with apoptosis.
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Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19

TL;DR: In patients hospitalized with Covid-19, the use of dexamethasone resulted in lower 28-day mortality among those who were receiving either invasive mechanical ventilation or oxygen alone at randomization but not among those receiving no respiratory support.
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Outcomes and prognostic factors in 267 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong.

TL;DR: A retrospective study from a Hong Kong hospital found that most of the 227 patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS presented with fever, chills, myalgia, pulmonary infiltrates, and lymphopenia; some had cough, shortness of breath, and rales; during hospitalization, half had diarrhea and one fourth required intensive care for respiratory failure.
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Short term outcome and risk factors for adverse clinical outcomes in adults with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

TL;DR: SARS is a new disease entity that carries significant morbidity and mortality and specific clinical and laboratory parameters predicting unfavourable outcomes have been identified.
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Cardiac Complications in Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia Incidence, Timing, Risk Factors, and Association With Short-Term Mortality

TL;DR: In this paper, a total of 1343 inpatients and 944 outpatients with community-acquired pneumonia were followed up prospectively for 30 days after presentation, and incident cardiac complications (new or worsening heart failure, new or worsening arrhythmias, or myocardial infarction) were diagnosed in 358 in-patients (26.7%) and 20 out-patient (2.1%) were diagnosed within the first week, more than half of them were recognized in the first 24 hours.
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Acute pneumonia and the cardiovascular system

TL;DR: It is suggested that outcomes of patients with pneumonia can be improved by prevention of the development and progression of associated cardiac complications and the potential effects of commonly used cardiovascular and anti-infective drugs on these associations.
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