Patients COVID-19 poyasnil level of cortisol in the blood are in a zone of special risk of complications and subsequent death.
According ToDay News Ufa, scientists at Imperial College London have identified the impact of high levels of cortisol in the human body a disease caused by a coronavirus infection. Thanks to this marker, will quickly identify patients who need more intensive treatment than others infected COVID-19.
The body begins to actively produce cortisol in response to stress, including disease. In this case, particularly the burden on the heart, metabolism and immune system as a whole. Thus the body tries to fight the disease. According to statistics, the patients COVID-19 with normal hormone levels (not 744) survived for 36 days. If cortisol was elevated, the survival rate was reduced to two weeks.
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