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Shorter leukocyte telomere length is associated with severity of COVID-19 infection.
13 Jun 2021
Abstract excerpt
The infection by COVID-19 is a serious global public health problem. An efficient way to improve this disease's clinical management would be to characterize patients at higher risk of progressing to critically severe infection using prognostic biomarkers. The telomere length could be used for this purpose. Telomeres are responsible for controlling the number of maximum cell divisions. The telomere length is a...
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