Publications by authors named "Anna Carolina Saude Dantas"
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- The COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant health concerns globally, making it essential to understand its clinical and epidemiological traits to inform control strategies.
- A study in northeastern Brazil analyzed 115 severely ill COVID-19 patients in an ICU, revealing common symptoms such as dyspnea and cough, with many patients having multiple comorbidities, particularly hypertension.
- Notably, having two or more comorbidities and lower platelet counts were associated with higher mortality, while cough emerged as a surprising protective factor against death.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide and epidemiological projections predict growing cancer mortality rates in the next decades. Cancer has a close relationship with the immune system and, although Th17 cells are known to play roles in the immune response against microorganisms and in autoimmunity, studies have emphasized their roles in cancer pathogenesis. The Th17 immune response profile is involved in several types of cancer including urogenital, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and skin cancers.
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