CONCLUSION: Lipoprotein(a) could be used as a useful biomarker for the triage of coronavirus disease 2019 patients. Baseline serum lipoprotein(a) levels may serve as a useful prognostic biomarker in patients hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019.
BACKGROUND: Seasonal influenza infection cases decline significantly in Hong Kong since the COVID-19 pandemic has begun in 2020. This also reduced the opportunities of reinducing influenza-specific antibodies in the community. The levels of
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Long Covid is a significant public health concern with potentially negative implications for health inequalities. We know that those who are already socially disadvantaged in society are more exposed to COVID-19, experience the
CONCLUSIONS: The Syrian healthcare system expressed minor resilience in facing the COVID-19 pandemic, as its assets vanished swiftly with a limited number of cases. This forced physicians to reserve resources (e.g., ventilators) for the most severe
CONCLUSION: The representativeness of the open medical imaging datasets in the curated public data commons at MIDRC has evolved over time as the number of contributing institutions and overall number of subjects have grown. The use of metrics, such
CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 infection leads to important changes in cell population data of leucocytes. The volumetric changes in lymphocytes and monocytes are related to the severity of the disease.
In this concluding article of the special issue, we examine lessons learned from hospitals' resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, and Mali. A quality lesson learned (QLL) results from a systematic process of collecting
CONCLUSION: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes in global RT practice patterns for BC were introduced. The impact of published results from the FAST FORWARD trial supporting ultrahypofractionation likely confounded the interpretation