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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2020

Possible Correlations between Atherosclerosis, Acute Coronary Syndromes and COVID-19.

Oliwia Grzegorowska, Jacek Lorkowski

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Effects of Cytokines (or Activating Factors) on Arterial Endothelial Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  5. COVID-19 andDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  8. Distinct Features of Vascular Diseases in COVID-19.Journal of inflammation research · 2023
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  12. Anti-inflammatory effects of GLP-1 in patients with COVID-19.Expert review of anti-infective therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Oliwia GrzegorowskaDepartment of Cardiology, Independent Public Regional Hospital, 71-455 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-7543-7990
Jacek LorkowskiDepartment of Orthopaedic and Traumatology, Central Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Interior, 02-507 Warsaw, Poland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection in December 2019 became a major global concern in 2020. Since then, several articles analyzing the course, complications and mechanisms of the infection have appeared. However, there are very few papers explaining the possible correlations between COVID-19, atherosclerosis and acute coronary syndromes. We performed an analysis of PubMed, Cochrane, Google Scholar, and MEDLINE databases. As of September 15, 2020, the results were as follows: for "COVID-19" and "cardiovascular system" we obtained 687 results; for "COVID-19" and "myocardial infarction" together with "COVID-19" and "acute coronary syndrome" we obtained 328 results; for "COVID-19" and "atherosclerosis" we obtained 57 results. Some of them did not fulfill the search criteria or concerned the field of neurology. Only articles written in English, German and Polish were analyzed for a total number of 432 papers. While the link between inflammatory response, COVID- 19 and atherosclerosis still remains unclear, there is evidence that suggests a more likely correlation between them. Practitioners' efforts should be focused on the prevention of excessive inflammatory response and possible complications, while there are limited specific therapeutic options against SARS-CoV-2. Furthermore, special attention should be paid to cardioprotection during the pandemic.

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acute coronary syndromeatherosclerosiscardiovascularCOVID-19inflammationSARS-CoV-2

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PMID33233333
PMCPMC7700642

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