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Auto-antibodies may trigger thrombosis risk in COVID-19
Publicado em 18 de setembro de 2023
Auto-antibodies may lie behind the susceptibility of elderly patients to thrombosis triggered by COVID-19, according to a new study.
Research conducted at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, reveals that natural production of auto-antibodies increases with age, and that infection by SARS-CoV-2 can exacerbate production of auto-antibodies relating to auto-immune diseases.
This, write the researchers in NPJ Aging, partly explains why ageing increases the chances of developing [...]
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Therapeutic-dose heparin could reduce deaths from COVID-19
Publicado em 03 novembro 2021Therapeutic doses of heparin may be effective at saving the lives of people with moderate COVID-19 admitted to hospital, according to researchers. Currently, global guidelines recommend using prophylactic doses of heparin on admission of COVID patients. But a new study has found that therapeutic doses – which are four times greater than the global guidelines suggest – reduced the risk of patients dying by 78%. The RAPID study involved 465 moderately-ill COVID patients at 28 [...]ver notícia