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Prevalence of comorbidities and its effects in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Jing Yang, +9 more
- 12 Mar 2020 - 
- Vol. 94, pp 91-95
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The prevalence of comorbidities in infected patients and risk factors for severe compared with non-severe patients are assessed to help the health sector guide vulnerable populations and assess the risk of deterioration.
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This article is published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases.The article was published on 2020-03-12 and is currently open access. It has received 3004 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Outbreak & Betacoronavirus.

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Covid-19: risk factors for severe disease and death.

Rachel Jordan, +2 more
- 26 Mar 2020 - 
TL;DR: A long list is emerging from largely unadjusted analyses, with age near the top of the list of top 10 causes of death in the world of sport.
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Predictors of mortality for patients with COVID-19 pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2: a prospective cohort study.

Rong Hui Du, +13 more
- 01 May 2020 - 
TL;DR: Age ≥65 years, pre-existing concurrent cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases, CD3+CD8+ T-cells ≤75 cells·μL−1 and cardiac troponin I ≥0.05 ng·mL−1 were four risk factors predicting high mortality of COVID-19 pneumonia patients.
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The pivotal link between ACE2 deficiency and SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Paolo Verdecchia, +3 more
- 01 Jun 2020 - 
TL;DR: It is suggested that ACE2 down-regulation induced by viral invasion may be especially detrimental in people with baseline ACE2 deficiency associated with the above conditions, and recombinant ACE2, angiotensin1-7 and angiotsin II type 1 receptor blockers could be promising therapeutic approaches in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Comorbidity and its Impact on Patients with COVID-19.

Adekunle Sanyaolu, +9 more
TL;DR: Examination of the comorbid conditions, the progression of the disease, and mortality rates in patients of all ages, infected with the ongoing COVID-19 disease found that patients withComorbidities should take all necessary precautions to avoid getting infected with SARS CoV-2, as they usually have the worst prognosis.
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COVID-19 diagnosis and management: a comprehensive review.

Giuseppe Pascarella, +7 more
- 29 Apr 2020 - 
TL;DR: An overview of the known clinical features and treatment options for COVID‐19 is provided and quarantine is the only intervention that appears to be effective in decreasing the contagion rate.
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Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China

Chaolin Huang, +28 more
- 24 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: The epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics and treatment and clinical outcomes of patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection in Wuhan, China, were reported.
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Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China.

Wei-jie Guan, +36 more
- 28 Feb 2020 - 
TL;DR: During the first 2 months of the current outbreak, Covid-19 spread rapidly throughout China and caused varying degrees of illness, and patients often presented without fever, and many did not have abnormal radiologic findings.
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Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

Dawei Wang, +13 more
- 17 Mar 2020 - 
TL;DR: The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China, and hospital-associated transmission as the presumed mechanism of infection for affected health professionals and hospitalized patients are described.
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Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding.

Roujian Lu, +36 more
- 22 Feb 2020 - 
TL;DR: The phylogenetic analysis suggests that bats might be the original host of this virus, an animal sold at the seafood market in Wuhan might represent an intermediate host facilitating the emergence of the virus in humans.
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Clinical characteristics of 140 patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China.

Jin-jin Zhang, +7 more
- 19 Feb 2020 - 
TL;DR: This work aims to investigate the clinical characteristic and allergy status of patients infected with SARS‐CoV‐2 and its spread around the world.
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