Acute Respiratory Infection

Adults with asthma experienced more exacerbations and acute respiratory infections after COVID-19 restrictions were relaxed, according to study results published in Thorax.

For adults in the U.K., preexisting neuropsychiatric conditions and having a prescription for a related treatment carried a significantly increased risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19 and other severe acute respiratory infections.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Patients who were hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia with co-existing iron deficiency anemia did not have worse outcomes, including mortality, septic shock, acute respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.

Text messaging showed promise as a surveillance tool to identify acute respiratory infections over a 5-year period in New York City, researchers found.

The deviation of many respiratory viral infections from a seasonal cadence is all too real.

Implementing a CDC framework for outpatient stewardship reduced hospitalizations and antibiotic prescribing for uncomplicated acute upper respiratory tract infections at 10 sites, according to a recent study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

An analysis of four different coronaviruses over an 8-year period demonstrated that they were detected in a limited timeframe, from December to April and May, with a peak during January and February, according to a recent study published in Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Monthly high-dose vitamin D supplementation does not prevent acute respiratory infections in older adults with vitamin D deficiency, according to a recent study.