COVID-19

Intranasal corticosteroids did not impact COVID-19 mortality in patients with asthma, COPD or neither, but they did reduce the risk for all-cause mortality, according to study results published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

About 20% of patients with COVID-19 experienced virologic rebound after receiving Paxlovid, according to an observational study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The gender gap in life expectancy in the United States has grown in recent years, with women living nearly 6 years longer than men on average, according to the results of a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to a short decrease in obstetric interventions and an increase in perinatal mortality, according to a retrospective study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

BOSTON — Researchers reported similar patient and allograft survival 1 year after liver transplantation between COVID-19 positive and negative donors, showing potential for expanding organ access, according to data at The Liver Meeting.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — With alcohol-related disease still on the rise after surging during the COVID-19 pandemic, an expert here discussed treatment options, including liver transplantation, for patients with alcoholic hepatitis.

Approximately 20% of patients with solid organ transplants, rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases or lymphoid cancers fail to mount a response to three or more COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Patients with asthma who were hospitalized for COVID-19 had less severe disease and lower mortality rates than patients with no airway disease, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy or Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Compared with the median bronchiolitis admission rate before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitalizations among children increased during the 2022 to 2023 season, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

In a cohort of older adults, the COVID-19 pandemic was a mitigating factor in self-perceived cognitive decline, the presence of which indicated a higher risk factor for worsening cognitive function in the year following the pandemic.