{"id":32293,"date":"2020-08-30T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=32293"},"modified":"2020-08-30T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T16:32:00","slug":"scientists-find-new-way-to-predict-who-will-get-severe-covid-19-and-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=32293","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find New Way to Predict Who Will Get Severe COVID-19 and Die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new study, researchers have identified two markers of inflammation that reliably predict the severity of COVID-19 cases and the likelihood of survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the pandemic began, the team of Mount Sinai scientists promptly implemented a rapid test to measure the levels of four cytokines associated with pathogenic inflammation, which were suspected to cause severity in COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In just one month, cytokine blood levels were tested in 1,484 patients upon admission to Mount Sinai Health System\u2019s hospitals, and patients were followed for up to 41 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers studied four proteins known as cytokines that circulate in the blood and are commonly associated with infections and found that two of them, called IL-6 and TNF-\u03b1, were able to predict which patients were likely to develop more severe forms of COVID-19 and die.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, researchers have identified two markers of inflammation that reliably predict the severity of COVID-19 cases and the likelihood of survival. When the pandemic began, the team of Mount Sinai scientists promptly implemented a rapid test to measure the levels of four cytokines associated with pathogenic inflammation, which were suspected to cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}