The impact of the covid-19 outbreak on aviation

Kešeľová, M.; Šváb, Patrik; Korba, Peter; Hovanec, Michal

doi:10.29119/1641-3466.2020.148.19

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“…The virus's main manifestations in patients include fever, cough, and shortness of breath that can progress rapidly in some cases to severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and septic shock (Khamis et al, 2020). The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a public health emergency of grave international concern (Keše lová et al, 2020). Although the clinical picture of SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 seems similar, differences were noted since early reports at the beginning of the pandemic.…”

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Serum Calcium and Vitamin D levels: Correlation with severity of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients in Royal Hospital, Oman

Osman

Fahdi

Salmi

et al. 2021

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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Introduction There have been studies revealing hypocalcemia in severe covid-19 and low vitamin D levels that warranted further studies. Objective Our study investigates the correlation between calcium levels at presentation as a primary endpoint, and pre-existing calcium levels as a secondary endpoint, to severity of disease presentation and progression. Method Observational cohort study in adults admitted with COVID-19 from March till September 2020. Multiple clinical scales, laboratory parameters, were used to correlate corrected calcium and vitamin D associations with risk factors and outcomes. Results Around 445 patients were included in the study. Hypocalcemic patients had more abnormal laboratory parameters and longer hospitalization duration. Hypocalcemia was in 60-75% of all age groups (p-value 0.053), for which 77.97% were ICU admissions (p-value 0.001) and 67.02% were diabetic (p-value 0.347). There were non-significant correlations between Vitamin D and almost all the parameters except for chronic respiratory diseases with P value of 0.024. Conclusion It can be concluded that hypocalcemia is a significant and reliable marker of disease severity and progression regardless of underlying comorbidities. Meanwhile, Vitamin D levels fail to reflect correlation with severity of COVID-19 infections.

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