Association of COVID-19 mortality with serum selenium, zinc and copper: Six observational studies across Europe
Demircan et al.,
Association of COVID-19 mortality with serum selenium, zinc and copper: Six observational studies across..,
Frontiers in Immunology, doi:10.3389/fimmu.2022.1022673
Retrospective 551 COVID-19 patients in Europe, showing an inverse association between selenium or zinc levels and mortality.
Demircan et al., 28 Nov 2022, retrospective, multiple countries, peer-reviewed, 24 authors.
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Abstract: TYPE Original Research
PUBLISHED 28 November 2022
DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1022673
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University of Giessen, Germany
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Università di Cagliari, Italy
Holger Steinbrenner,
Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
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Lutz Schomburg
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Association of COVID-19
mortality with serum
selenium, zinc and copper:
Six observational studies
across Europe
Kamil Demircan 1†, Thilo Samson Chillon 1†, Tommy Bracken 2,
Ilaria Bulgarelli 3, Irene Campi 4, Gijs Du Laing 5,
Samira Fafi-Kremer 6, Laura Fugazzola 4,7,
Alejandro Abner Garcia 8, Raban Heller 1,9,10, David J. Hughes 11,
Louis Ide 12, Georg Jochen Klingenberg 1, Pawel Komarnicki 13,
Zbigniew Krasinski 14, Alain Lescure 15, Patrick Mallon 8,
Arash Moghaddam 16, Luca Persani 4,17, Mirko Petrovic 18,
Marek Ruchala 13, Morgane Solis 6, Linos Vandekerckhove 18
and Lutz Schomburg 1*
Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Berlin Institute of
Health, Berlin, Germany, 2 School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland,
3
Laboratorio Analisi Cliniche, Centro di Ricerche e Tecnologie Biomediche, IRCCS Istituto
Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy, 4 Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Istituto
Auxologico Italiano, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Milan, Italy,
5
Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Ecochemistry, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering,
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, 6 CHU de Strasbourg, Laboratoire de Virologie, Strasbourg
University, INSERM, IRM UMR-S 1109, Strasbourg, France, 7 Department of Pathophysiology and
Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, 8 Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research,
School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 9 Clinic of Traumatology and
Orthopaedics, Bundeswehr Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 10 Department of General Practice and
Health Services Research, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, 11 School of
Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin,
Ireland, 12 Laboratory Medicine, AZ Jan Palfijn AV, Gent, Belgium, 13 Department of Endocrinology,
Metabolism, and Internal Diseases, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland,
14
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Angiology and Phlebology, Poznan University
of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, 15 Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, CNRS, Université de
Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 16 Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Aschaffenburg, Germany,
17
Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy,
18
Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
1
CITATION
Demircan K, Chillon TS, Bracken T,
Bulgarelli I, Campi I, Du Laing G,
Fafi-Kremer S, Fugazzola L, Garcia AA,
Heller R, Hughes DJ, Ide L,
Klingenberg GJ, Komarnicki P,
Krasinski Z, Lescure A, Mallon P,
Moghaddam A, Persani L, Petrovic M,
Ruchala M, Solis M, Vandekerckhove L
and Schomburg L (2022) Association
of COVID-19 mortality with serum
selenium, zinc and copper: Six
observational studies across..
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