A dried blood spot protocol for high throughput analysis of SARS-CoV-2 serology based on the Roche Elecsys anti-N assay.

Background: Since 2020 SARS-CoV-2 spreads pandemically, infecting more than 119 million people, causing >2·6 million fatalities. Symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection vary greatly, ranging from asymptomatic to fatal. Different populations react differently to the disease, making it very hard to track the spread of the infection in a population.

Building an allostatic load index from data of occupational medical checkup examinations: a feasibility study.

The allostatic load index (ALI) assesses the physiological adaption to chronic stress by cumulative changes in the circulation, respiration, inflammation, metabolic and anthropometric systems. The ALI thus can function as a risk marker for secondary prevention in occupational medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of creating a predictive marker by using data from an executive checkup program of an international company and to examine its relationship to work-related surrogate health parameters.