A recent study determined the factors associated with severe disease and poor health outcomes among children presenting to the hospital with COVID. These included older age and chronic co-morbidities ...
What are co-morbidities and why do they make COVID-19 severe and life-threatening? Chronic nutritional/metabolic diseases start as diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome or obesity. They in turn ...
Comorbidities affect outcomes and treatment decisions in patients with immune-driven systemic inflammatory disorders. New recommendations for the management of comorbidities in rheumatoid arthritis, ...
One of the largest studies to investigate whether Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm), an understudied low lung function state, is an early predictor of co-morbidities has found it is strongly ...
COVID-19 disease continues to spread worldwide and indeed in our island nation, with more than two million cases worldwide and 143 cases here in Jamaica as at Friday, April 17, 2020. With five ...
ATS 2012, SAN FRANCISCO – The majority of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) referred for pulmonary rehabilitation have multiple extra-pulmonary comorbidities, according to a ...