Pre-existing health conditions and severe COVID-19 outcomes: an umbrella review approach and meta-analysis of global evidence

M Treskova-Schwarzbach, L Haas, S Reda, A Pilic… - BMC medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background This study applies an umbrella review approach to summarise the global
evidence on the risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes in patients with pre-existing health …

Covid-19 and non-communicable diseases: evidence from a systematic literature review

Z Nikoloski, AM Alqunaibet, RA Alfawaz… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Since early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has engulfed the world.
Amidst the growing number of infections and deaths, there has been an emphasis of …

Evaluation of COVID-19 mortality and adverse outcomes in US patients with or without cancer

M Chavez-MacGregor, X Lei, H Zhao, P Scheet… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, understanding the clinical outcomes of
patients with cancer and COVID-19 has become critically important. Objective To compare …

Priority COVID-19 vaccination for patients with cancer while vaccine supply is limited

A Ribas, R Sengupta, T Locke, SK Zaidi, KM Campbell… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Published series on COVID-19 support the notion that patients with cancer are a particularly
vulnerable population. There is a confluence of risk factors between cancer and COVID-19 …

Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022: a retrospective cohort study using the …

L Nab, EPK Parker, CD Andrews, WJ Hulme… - The Lancet public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background COVID-19 has been shown to differently affect various demographic and
clinical population subgroups. We aimed to describe trends in absolute and relative COVID …

Association of COVID-19 vaccination with breakthrough infections and complications in patients with cancer

IY Gong, A Vijenthira, M Powis, A Calzavara… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Patients with cancer are known to have increased risk of COVID-19
complications, including death. Objective To determine the association of COVID-19 …

Association of Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and clinical/severe outcomes of COVID-19 patients

R Abdollahzadeh, MH Shushizadeh… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Growing evidence documented the critical impacts of vitamin D (VD) in the
prognosis of COVID-19 patients. The functions of VD are dependent on the vitamin D …

Cancer services during the COVID-19 pandemic: systematic review of patient's and caregiver's experiences

S Dhada, D Stewart, E Cheema, MA Hadi… - Cancer management …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Cancer patients have faced intersecting crises during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This review aimed to examine patients' and caregivers' experiences of accessing cancer …

Impact of COVID-19 on case fatality rate of patients with cancer during the Omicron wave

M Lee, R Quinn, K Pradhan, K Fedorov, D Levitz… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B. 1.1. 529) variant has emerged as the dominant variant in the
USA. To assess the case fatality rate (CFR) in patients with cancer during this wave of the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 receptor and malignant cancers: Association of CTSL expression with susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2

L Zhang, C Wei, D Li, J He, S Liu, H Deng… - … journal of biological …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CTSL is expressed by cancerous tissues and encodes a lysosomal cysteine proteinase that
regulates cancer progression and SARS-CoV-2 entry. Therefore, it is critical to predict the …