COVID-19

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

A recent report found that about 18% of people with long COVID have been unable to return to work since their diagnosis, but primary care physicians can help patients manage the condition, an expert said.

Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, men were more likely than women to have CV complications, but the difference was not explained by lower rates of past CVD in women, researchers reported in BMJ Medicine.

Mortality rates among ICU patients aged 70 years and older were considerably higher in those with COVID-19 compared with those who had bacterial or other viral pneumonia, according to researchers.

Adults who contract COVID-19 have a higher risk for developing incident diabetes in the 90 days after the infection compared with before the infection, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Compared with other hospital patients, those with COVID-19 reported greater anxiety and perceived trauma, according to findings published in BMC Psychiatry.

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid adoption of telemedicine among rheumatologists and a delaying of advanced treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, according to data published in Rheumatology Advances in Practice.

Patients with large vessel occlusion strokes who underwent mechanical thrombectomy had lower mortality rates and higher rates of routine discharge in 2019 compared with 2020, although mortality rates shifted with surges of COVID-19.

During 2020, the rate of pregnancy-associated death increased by 35% from 2019, with changes observed in the proportions of drug-related deaths, homicides and suicides, researchers reported.

A single dose of pegylated interferon lambda used as early treatment in patients with COVID-19 was effective in lowering the total occurrences of hospitalization and ED visits, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found.