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Diabetes, obesity, metabolism, and SARS-CoV-2 infection: the end of the beginning.

Daniel J. Drucker
- 02 Mar 2021 - 
- Vol. 33, Iss: 3, pp 479-498
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The increased prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors in people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 illness has engendered considerable interest in the metabolic aspects of SARS-CoV-2-induced pathophysiology as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Cell Metabolism.The article was published on 2021-03-02 and is currently open access. It has received 145 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Diabetes mellitus.

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COVID-19 among health care workers at the "Instituto Autonomo Hospital Universitario de Los Andes" in Merida, Venezuela

TL;DR: Por tanto, deben fortalecerse las estrategias de prevención generales y laborales específicas, and así limitar the diseminación del SARS-CoV-2 entre el personal, para que este se desempeñe de manera segura y efectiva.
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Predicting COVID-19 severity using major risk factors and received vaccines

TL;DR: A model estimating the probabilities for hospitalization and mortality according to individual risk factors and vaccine doses received could help prioritize vaccination and yet scarce medications to maximize lives saved and reduce the burden on hospitalization facilities.
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Association between trans fatty acids and COVID‐19: A multivariate Mendelian randomization study

TL;DR: In this paper , the causal link between genetically determined TFAs and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID•19) was investigated, and the inverse variance weighted (IVW) method was used as the primary MR analysis, and several other methods were used as supplements.
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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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