Triple jeopardy in ageing: COVID-19, co-morbidities and inflamm-ageing.

ABSTRACT: Covid-19 endangers lives, has disrupted normal life, changed the way medicine is practised and is likely to alter our world for the foreseeable future. Almost two years on since the presumptive first diagnosis of COVID-19 in China, more than two hundred and fifty million cases have been confirmed and more than five million people have died globally, with the figures rising daily. One of the most striking aspects of COVID-19 illness is the marked difference in individuals' experiences of the disease. Some, most often younger groups, are asymptomatic, whereas others become severely ill with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), pneumonia or proceed to fatal organ disease. The highest death rates are in the older and oldest age groups and in people with co-morbidities such as diabetes,

SUBMITTER: Rea IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8530779 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature