by Main Line Health Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Clinical data increasingly has shown that patients with low vitamin D levels have a greater chance of COVID-19 infection—and severe disease and death. Now, research led by scientists from Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), part of Main Line Health, points to an explanation for the link...
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA IMAGE: NON-CONTRAST AXIAL AND SAGITTAL CHEST CTS CORRESPONDING TO THE CT SEVERITY SCORE. (A) 1: MINIMAL (SUBTLE GGO, VERY FEW FINDINGS): CT SHOWS SUBTLE SUBPLEURAL GGO (ARROW) IN THE RIGHT AND LEFT LOWER LOBE. (B) 2: LOW (SEVERAL GGO, SUBTLE RETICULATION): CT SHOWS SEVERAL SUBPLEURAL GGO AND SUPERIMPOSED RETICULATION (ARROW)...
by University of Nottingham Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The severity of COVID-19 pneumonia can be difficult to assess in people from different ethnic groups, due to inaccurate readings from a device that measures the level of oxygen in the blood of patients. The findings of the research, published in the European Respiratory Journal, show that pulse...
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOSTON – Sitagliptin, a drug to lower blood sugar in type 2 diabetes, also improves survival in diabetic patients hospitalized with COVID-19, suggests a multicenter observational study in Italy. Patients given sitagliptin in addition to insulin had a mortality rate of 18 percent as compared with 37 percent in matched patients receiving...
by University of North Texas Health Science Center When news of the coronavirus emerged from Wuhan, China, Kunlin Jin, Ph.D., and a team of international researchers quickly joined forces to fight the mysterious disease. Dr. Jin relied on his more than 20 years of knowledge about stem cells to work with an international team driven...
