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Published in final edited form as: Circulation. Oct 23;(25)– doi: /CIRCULATIONAHA
Ling Xiao, PhD
1Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
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Joe-Elie Salem, MD, PhD
2Clinical Pharmacology, Sorbonne University, INSERM, APHP, UNICO-GRECO Cardio-oncology schema, Sorbonne University, ISERM, APHP, UNICO-GRECO Cardio-oncology Program, Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
3Clinical Investigation Center, Paris, France
4Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Cardio-Oncology schema, Division of Cardiovascular medicin, Nashville, TN
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Sebastian Clauss, MD
5Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
6Department of Medicine inom, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Germany
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Elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases account for a large proportion of Corona virus Disease (COVID)related deaths. COVID, as a new coronavirus, mainly targets the patient’s lung triggering a cascade of innate and adaptive immune responses in the host. The principal causes of death among COVID patients, especially elderly subjects with cardiovascular diseases, are acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), and microvascular thrombosis. All prompted by an excessive uncontrolled systemic inflammatory response. Immunosenescence, characterized by systemic and chronic inflammation as well as innate/adaptive immune imbalance, presents both in the elderly and cardiovascular patients. COVID infection further aggravates the existing inflammatory process and lymphocyte depletion leading to uncontrollable systemic inflammatory responses, which is the primary cause of death. Based on the higher mortality, this study attempts to eluci
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A potential association between immunosenescence and high COVID related mortality among elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases
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Elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases account for a large proportion of Corona virus Disease (COVID)related deaths. COVID, as a new coronavirus, mainly targets the patient’s lung triggering a cascade of innate and adaptive immune responses in the host. The principal causes of death among COVID patients, especially elderly subjects with cardiovascular diseases, are acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), and microvascular thrombosis. All prompted by an excessive uncontrolled systemic inflammatory response. Immunosenescence, characterized by systemic and chronic inflammation as well as innate/adaptive immune imbalance, pre