Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Researchers in Sweden believe they may have identified a primary reason so many COVID-19 patients suffer from thrombosis, sharing their findings in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. The team’s discovery revolves around mannose-binding lectin (MBL), a protein that is part of the body’s natural immune system. Exploring data from 65 patients who […]
Read MoreDG Alerts A research letter published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society concluded that asthma may be an overestimated risk factor for hospitalisation due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Richard Broadhurst, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, and colleagues compared the prevalence of asthma among patients hospitalised for COVID-19, as reported in […]
Read MoreDG Alerts Researchers have identified a mechanism they believe explains why so many critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have an increased risk of thromboembolic complications despite pharmacological thromboprophylaxis. In a cohort of 65 patients with severe COVID-19 in intensive care, Oskar Eriksson, MD, University Hospital, and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and colleagues […]
Read MoreAuthors: Victor G. B. Liem, M.D., M.Sc. et al Anesthesiology 9 2020, Vol.133, 510-522. Background: Intraoperative hypotension has been associated with postoperative morbidity and early mortality. Postoperative hypotension, however, has been less studied. This study examines postoperative hypotension, hypothesizing that both the degree of hypotension severity and longer durations would be associated with myocardial injury.Methods: This single-center observational […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Researchers from Kaiser Permanente have identified a “striking association” between a person’s BMI and their risk of death from COVID-19, sharing their findings in Annals of Internal Medicine. “Approximately 42.4% of the U.S. adult population is obese, and 9.2% is severely obese,” wrote lead author Sara Y. Tartof, PhD, MPH, […]
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