Background: In 2019, SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, entered the world scene, presenting a global health crisis with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Recognizing the significance of metabolomics as the omics closest to symptomatology, it has become a useful tool for predicting clinical outcomes. Several metabolomic studies have indicated variations in the metabolome corresponding to different disease severities, highlighting the potential of metabolomics to unravel crucial insights into the pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Methods: The PRISMA guidelines were followed for this scoping review. Three major scientific databases were searched: PubMed, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and BioMed Central, from 2020 to 2024. Initially, 2938 articles were identified and vetted with specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Of these, 42 articles were retrieved for analysis and summary.
Results: Metabolites were identified that were repeatedly noted to change with COVID-19 and its severity. Phenylalanine, glucose, and glutamic acid increased with severity, while tryptophan, proline, and glutamine decreased, highlighting their association with COVID-19 severity. Additionally, pathway analysis revealed that phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis, and arginine biosynthesis were the most significantly impacted pathways in COVID-19 severity.
Conclusions: COVID-19 severity is intricately linked to significant metabolic alterations that span amino acid metabolism, energy production, immune response modulation, and redox balance.
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BMC Med Educ
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Department of International Public Health, Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembrooke Place, L3, 5QA, Liverpool, UK.
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Department of Stomatology, Taizhou Central Hospital (Taizhou University Hospital), Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
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Method: Following the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) method based on the stomatology workflow, the opinions of 30 domain-experts in related fields were collected through questionnaires to determine all potential failure modes in the severity (S), occurrence (O), and detectability (D) dimensions. The group score was then integrated through the median method and the risk priority number (RPN) was obtained.
Neurol Sci
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Department of Biomedical, Metabolic, and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
Background And Aim: COVID-19 is associated with neurological complications, termed neuro-COVID, affecting patient outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the association between serum neurofilament light chain (NfL) and S100B biomarkers with the presence of neurological manifestations and functional prognosis in COVID-19 patients.
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BMJ Open
January 2025
Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, HUG, Geneva, Switzerland.
Objectives: This study aims (1) to assess the prevalence of severe fatigue among the general population of Geneva, 2 years into the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) to identify pandemic and non-pandemic factors associated with severe fatigue.
Design: Cross-sectional population-based survey conducted in Spring 2022.
Setting: General adult population of Geneva, Switzerland.
BMJ
January 2025
Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
The covid-19 pandemic was associated with an unprecedented increase in alcohol consumption and associated morbidity, including hospitalizations for alcohol withdrawal. Clinicians based in hospitals must be ready to identify, assess, risk-stratify, and treat alcohol withdrawal with evidence based interventions. In this clinically focused review, we outline the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, screening, assessment, and treatment of alcohol withdrawal in the general hospital population.
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