A public health perspective of aging: do hyper-inflammatory syndromes such as COVID-19, SARS, ARDS, cytokine storm syndrome, and post-ICU syndrome accelerate short- and long-term inflammaging?

Immunity & Ageing

Claudio Franceschi¹  Shepherd H. Schurman²  Arsun Bektas³  Luigi Ferrucci³ 

[1] Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna;Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health;Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health;

关键词: Inflammaging;    COVID-19;    Inflammation;    Cytokine storm syndrome;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12979-020-00196-8

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract A central clinical question as the world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic is what the long-term sequelae for the millions of individuals will be who recover from the hyperinflammatory state characterizing COVID-19 and in particular for the hundreds of thousands who are ill enough to need hospitalization and in particular ICU care. Even when the pandemic is finally controlled, will COVID-19 survivors face exaggerated internal inflammatory processes, worsening co-morbidities, and increased susceptibility to age-related diseases? Clues for what may happen in post-COVID-19 patients can be elicited from those who recovered from other conditions that lead to similar hyperinflammatory states such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS), cytokine storm syndrome, and post-ICU syndrome. The short-and long-term sequalae following recovery from each of these conditions suggests that these syndromes lead to an accelerated state of chronic subclinical systemic inflammation often seen in aging (termed inflammaging) resulting in increased and worsening age-related conditions including frailty even in younger individuals.

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