More studies are needed to determine if the results are applicable to other populations and how air pollution might affect psoriasis disease activity, the investigators write.
Markers of brain injury are detected in patients with COVID, and are associated with the presence of autoantibodies and elevations of proinflammatory cytokines. The study has not yet been peer-reviewed.
COVID-19 infection causes an increase in inflammatory factors in cancer patients over and above that due to the disease itself, which may promote tumor development and explain their worse outcomes.
The biomedical scientists of the University of California, Riverside have found a way for drugs to be more effective against inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD.