Is There a Role for Environmental and Metabolic Factors Predisposing to Severe COVID-19?
Journal
Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme
ISSN: 1439-4286
Titre abrégé: Horm Metab Res
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0177722
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2020
Jul 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
1
7
2020
medline:
24
7
2020
entrez:
30
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic affects people around the world. However, there have been striking differences in the number of infected individuals and deaths in different countries. Particularly, within Central Europe in countries that are similar in ethnicity, age, and medical standards and have performed similar steps of containment, such differences in mortality rates remain inexplicable. We suggest to consider and explore environmental factors to explain these intriguing variations. Countries like Northern Italy, France, Spain, and UK have suffered from 5 times more deaths from the corona virus infection than neighboring countries like Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Denmark related to the size of their respective populations. There is a striking correlation between the level of environmental pollutants including pesticides, dioxins, and air pollution such as NO
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
540-546Subventions
Organisme : MO 1695/5-1 and -2
ID : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Organisme : 3-2, F03661-553-41B-1250000
ID : Excellence Initiative by the German Federal State Governments
Informations de copyright
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.