Most screening programmes evaluate patients with a high short term risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Clearly though, cardiovascular disease begins in early life and with the exposure to risk factors determines a lifetime risk for clinical cardiovascular...
Cancer, COVID and Screening; Where do we go from here? It is reported in the papers this weekend that thousands of lives may be lost to cancer because 250,000 patients were not referred to hospital for urgent checks. Apparently, there was a 43% drop in referrals...
Elimination of COVID-19 – Is This Possible and What Would It Look Like? An interesting article published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases August 6, 2020 by Anita Heywood and Macintyre looks at this in detail. In countries that have achieved a low...
SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load – Can it predict COVID-19 mortality? An interesting letter in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine published August 6, 2020 by Pujadas and others reports on the association of viral load and COVID-19 mortality. Currently SARS-CoV-2 PCR swabs do...
Wendy Armstrong in the Journal of the American Medical Association of July revealed that 87% of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 had persistent symptoms more than two months after the onset of the disease despite resolution of viral infection. Investigators in...
An article by Baker and others published in Science July 2020 used climate-dependent epidemic modelling to simulate the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic by proving different scenarios based on known coronavirus biology. Studies using a regression framework have found a role for...
