Shorter leukocyte telomere length is associated with severity of COVID-19 infection.

Shorter leukocyte telomere length is associated with severity of COVID-19 infection.

The infection by COVID-19 is a serious global public health problem. An efficient way to improve this disease's clinical management would be to characterize patients at higher risk of progressing to critically severe infection using prognostic biomarkers. The telomere length could be used for t...

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Main Authors: Gabriel Arantes dos Santos, Ruan Pimenta, Nayara I. Viana, Vanessa R. Guimarães, Poliana Romão, Patrícia Candido, Juliana A. de Camargo, Diná M. Hatanaka, Paula GS. Queiroz, Alexandre Teruya, Katia R.M. Leite, Victor Srougi, Miguel Srougi, Sabrina T. Reis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports
Subjects:
COVID-19
Telomere length
Biomarker
Prognostic
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405580821001503

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