Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/cardiology.2.010
Predicting COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients’ Outcome with Homocysteine
Giovanni Ponti1,*, Marco Manfredini2, Gabriella Oliva3, Tomris Ozben4,5, Caterina Fontana6, Aldo Tomasi1
- 1Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
- 2Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
- 3South African Herbal Science and Medicine Institute, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
- 4Discipline of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
- 5Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
- 6Geriatric and Gerontology Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena MO, Italy
Corresponding Author
Prof. Giovanni Ponti, giovanni.ponti@unimore.it
Received Date: March 08, 2021
Accepted Date: May 21, 2021
Ponti G, Manfredini M, Oliva G, Ozben T, Fontana C, Tomasi A. Predicting COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients’ Outcome with Homocysteine. J Clin Cardiol. 2021; 2(1):19-22.
Copyright: © 2021 Ponti G, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Homocysteine (Hcy), COVID-19 vulnerability, Predictor parameters, MTHFR gene, Biomarkers, MTHFR677C>T mutations
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