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Low serum calcium predicts hospitalization in COVID-19 patients

June 1, 2021 by admin

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2), presents primarily with fever, dry cough, and fatigue or myalgia.1 Although most patients have a favorable prognosis, infection may not infrequently lead to a severe syndrome requiring hospitalization and assisted ventilation with high lethality.2 Previous studies have reported that calcium played a central […]

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High prevalence of hypocalcemia in non-severe COVID-19 patients

May 27, 2021 by admin

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected over 50 million people and has inflicted more than 1.2 million casualties ever since its inception in December 2019. Although most patients tend to have mild-moderate disease with a favorable prognosis, the infection may not infrequently lead to severe-to critical disease and mortality1. The prognosis tends to be […]

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Serum calcium: biomarker of clinical severity and prognosis in COVID 19 patients

May 24, 2021 by admin

The pathogen has been reported as a novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The World Health Organization (WHO) has made the assessment that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be characterized as a pandemic because the disease is still spreading rapidly around the world, especially in the United States, Spain, and Russia.1 The […]

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Hypocalcemia is highly incident in COVID-19

May 3, 2021 by admin

Basis of mechanism and therapeutic relevance of hypocalcemia during severe COVID-19 infection Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV- 2), presents primarily with fever, dry cough, and fatigue or myalgia.1 Many researches have reported that calcium played a central role in viral infectious and replicative mechanisms of SARS-CoV, […]

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