Direct and Indirect Complications of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cardiovascular Health and Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3939
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cardiovascular diseases; vascular aging; sirtuins; mitochondrial function; heart failure; ischemia reperfusion injury; cell senescence; endothelial biology; induced pluripotent stem cell biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge global impact, claiming millions of lives. In addition to being a health burden, it has also imposed deleterious social and economic consequences for millions worldwide. Mortality caused by COVID-19 has raised several questions to the scientific community regarding the exact cause of death. The microbiology and history of Coronaviridae family are known to cause mild respiratory tract disorders—severe in the case of SARS—but not at the level of a pandemic. Within COVID-19 mortalities, the percentage of deaths caused by underlying cardiovascular diseases has been significantly high. My own enquiries, informed by my strong Medical Microbiology background and expertise in cardiovascular disease and physiology, have raised several questions of this nature, and I would like to share my thoughts and scientific reality with our community and the global population.
This Special Issue welcomes articles and discussions focused on CVDs and COVID-19. Important questions to address are as follows: Is there direct evidence linking COVID-19 to heart and vascular diseases? Is COVID-19 associated with CVDs wherein the patients are terminally ill or already suffering from an END-STAGE CVD? Does COVID-19 pose immediate and long-term complications for accelerated CVDs? Finally, are cardiovascular deaths independent of COVID-19, even though patients are tested positive at end stages or near death? I encourage honest and unbiased opinions from our scientific community within this Special Issue to address the important topic of COVID-19 and CVDs.
Dr. Gautham Yepuri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- CVDs
- heart failure
- hypoxia
- ischemic injury
- mitochondrial dysfunction
- senescence
- vascular dysfunction
- atherosclerosis
- hypertension
- panic induced heart failure
- myocardial infarction
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