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ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2020

COVID-19 related stress exacerbates common physical and mental pathologies and affects treatment (Review).

Konstantinos Tsamakis, Andreas S Triantafyllis, Dimitrios Tsiptsios, Eleftherios Spartalis, Christoph Mueller, Charalampos Tsamakis, Sofia Chaidou, Demetrios A Spandidos, Lampros Fotis, Marina Economou and 1 more

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Article in Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Konstantinos TsamakisSecond Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens, 'ATTIKON' University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Andreas S TriantafyllisDepartment of Cardiology, Asklepeion General Hospital, 16673 Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios TsiptsiosDepartment of Neurophysiology, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland SR47TP, UK.
Eleftherios Spartalis2nd Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Christoph MuellerKing's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London SE5 8AF, UK.
Charalampos TsamakisDepartment of Dermatology, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Luton LU4 0DZ, UK.
Sofia Chaidou1st Department of Paediatrics, University of Athens, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Demetrios A SpandidosLaboratory of Clinical Virology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
Lampros FotisDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Athens, 'ATTIKON' University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Marina EconomouByron-Kessariani Community Mental Health Centre, First Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens, 'EGINITION' Hospital, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Emmanouil RizosSecond Department of Psychiatry, University of Athens, 'ATTIKON' University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GREginition Hospital · GRHippocration General Hospital · GRKing's College London · GBLuton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · GBSouth Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversity of Crete · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global public health emergency resulting in unprecedented individual and societal fear and anxiety. The stress surrounding this biothreat appears to have clinical implications in all aspects of medicine, both in mental and physical health spheres. The impact of COVID-19 related anxiety in Cardiology, Paediatrics, Oncology, Dermatology, Neurology and Mental Health and how it affects treatments is discussed. Moreover, the need for introducing novel communication and therapeutic approaches is highlighted in the new landscape of the COVID-19 era.

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clinical implicationsCOVID-19pandemicphysical and mental pathologiesstresstreatment

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PMID32509006
PMCPMC7271730
OpenAlexW3019638797

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