, which was first discovered in Wuhan, China in December 2019, has infected more than 200 countries. The virus that causes it is the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 or better known as SARS-CoV-2. Symptoms in infected individuals vary widely from asymptomatic to severe ones. Individuals infected with COVID-19 may develop hypercoagulability and thrombosis. D-dimer is a degradation product of fibrin which indicates the formation of thrombin and dilution of fibrin by plasmin. Literature search was done in PubMed and Google Scholar from January 2020 to October 2021. The search method used the Boolean operators to link titles and abstracts with the keywords "D-Dimer" AND "COVID-19". The year of publication was all after 2019. The types of research were not limited, so all sources, meta-analyses, reviews, original articles, and reports, were collected.In COVID-19 patients, D-dimer can be an early marker to improve the management of COVID-19 patients. D-dimer can serve as a marker to determine the severity of lung damage. An increase in D-dimer indicates a degradation of accumulated fibrin in the alveoli and lung parenchyma as a result of lung trauma due to the reaction between the immune system and SARS-Cov-2 in the alveoli or lung parenchyma. The results showed that elevated plasma D-dimer levels were more common in patients with severe COVID-19 cases. The D-dimer is positively correlated with the prognosis of COVID-19. A fourfold increase in D-dimer or greater predicts in-hospital mortality.
This cross-sectional study reported a link between waist circumference as an anthropometric index for central obesity and systolic blood pressure. The study used a cross-sectional method by linking systolic blood pressure data and waist circumference. A total of 45 male and female participants met the inclusion criteria in the study. The average waist circumference (cm) is 79.90 ± 10.41, and the average systolic blood pressure (mmHg) is 107.28 ± 11.01. Of all participants, 84.4% had normal systolic blood pressure, 13.3% prehypertension, 2.2% stage 1 hypertension. For waist circumference, 21 out of 27 men in the central obesity category (77.8%) had a normal waist circumference (22.2%). On the other hand, 6 out of 18 women are centrally obese (33.3%), and 12 women have a normal waist circumference (66.7%). Spearman's correlation results show p=0.344. Research shows that there is a relationship between waist circumference and systolic blood pressure with a weak correlation.
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