Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting millions of people and has resulted in more than 2.5 million death worldwide as of March 2021. A major consequence of COVID-19 is that it induces serious and possibly fatal inflammatory responses following pulmonic cellular injury. The consequences of COVID-19 go beyond lung damage, with impacts on multiple metabolic pathways, particularly the lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.
This Research Topic focuses on the effects of COVID-19 on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, potential associations of these effects with inflammation, severity and mortality in COVID-19, role of lipids and lipoproteins on risk calculations of COVID-19 severity. Another goal is to assess the effects of drugs targeting lipid and lipoprotein metabolism and improve possible therapeutic strategies for COVID-19.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1) How COVID-19 affects the lipid and lipoprotein levels.
2) Role of lipids and lipoprotein levels on COVID-19 severity and mortality.
3) Role of therapeutic strategies targeting lipids and lipoproteins on COVID-19 severity and mortality.
4) Role of lipid and lipoprotein levels on COVID-19 risk score models.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting millions of people and has resulted in more than 2.5 million death worldwide as of March 2021. A major consequence of COVID-19 is that it induces serious and possibly fatal inflammatory responses following pulmonic cellular injury. The consequences of COVID-19 go beyond lung damage, with impacts on multiple metabolic pathways, particularly the lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.
This Research Topic focuses on the effects of COVID-19 on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, potential associations of these effects with inflammation, severity and mortality in COVID-19, role of lipids and lipoproteins on risk calculations of COVID-19 severity. Another goal is to assess the effects of drugs targeting lipid and lipoprotein metabolism and improve possible therapeutic strategies for COVID-19.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1) How COVID-19 affects the lipid and lipoprotein levels.
2) Role of lipids and lipoprotein levels on COVID-19 severity and mortality.
3) Role of therapeutic strategies targeting lipids and lipoproteins on COVID-19 severity and mortality.
4) Role of lipid and lipoprotein levels on COVID-19 risk score models.