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Author(s): Juan Tamargo Added: 3 years ago
“When the cause of the sickness is unknown, only a miracle can cure it.” Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, 1605. The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was caused by the novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).1,2 COVID-19 rapidly spread from China to most countries around the world, and on 11 March 2020 the WHO declared a global pandemic. The COVID-19… View more
Author(s): Maki Komiyama , Koji Hasegawa Added: 3 years ago
Thank you very much for your interesting and important comments on our review that discussed smoking cessation to limit the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.1,2 As you pointed out, the reported number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients who are current or former smokers is small.3,4 One reason for this small number of smokers is that an unknown history of smoking may be treated as a non… View more
Author(s): Maki Komiyama , Koji Hasegawa , Akira Matsumori Added: 3 years ago
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a public health emergency of international concern.1 The pandemic is ongoing, and the world is faced with the urgent task of minimising the mortality associated with COVID-19. Besides advanced age, risk factors for escalation of COVID-19 severity include underlying… View more
Author(s): Kahtan Fadah , Gregory Piazza Added: 1 year ago
AHA 22 - CardioNerds Fellow, Dr Kahtan Fadah(Texas Tech University, US) is joined by PREVENT-HD PI, Dr Gregory Piazza (Brigham and Women's Hospital, US) to discuss the findings revealed at AHA 2022. PREVENT-HD was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of rivaroxaban in reducing the risk of major venous and arterial thrombotic events in patients with COVID-19. Over 1200 patients were… View more
Author(s): Harriette Van Spall , Garima Sharma , Laxmi Mehta Added: 2 years ago
What could institutions do to address the issues highlighted by data globally? In the ACC 21 edition of the Masterclass series, Dr Laxmi Mehta (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US) and Dr Garima Sharma (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, US) sat down with host, Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, Hamilton, CA) to discuss two important publications both focusing… View more
Author(s): Marco Rossato , Angelo Di Vincenzo Added: 3 years ago
We read with interest the paper by Komiyama and Hasegawa on the need for smoking cessation as a public health measure to limit the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.1 It seems obvious to reiterate that smoking cessation is advisable to reduce many other severe conditions, such as chronic lung and cardiovascular diseases and some types of cancer, which are leading causes of morbidity… View more