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SUBMITTER: Feyaerts AF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7381407 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov - Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feyaerts Adam F AF Luyten Walter W
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) 20200725
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causes the potentially fatal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Already during the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1, the use of vitamin C was suggested. Many patients with severe COVID-19 have elevated levels of the mediators interleukin-6 and endothelin-1. These mediators may explain the age dependence of COVID-19 pneumonia, the preponderance of male and obese or hypertensive patients, as well as of persons of colo ...[more]