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. 2020 Jul;20(1):159-162.
doi: 10.3892/etm.2020.8671. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

COVID-19 related stress exacerbates common physical and mental pathologies and affects treatment (Review)

Konstantinos Tsamakis  1   2 , Andreas S Triantafyllis  3 , Dimitrios Tsiptsios  4 , Eleftherios Spartalis  5 , Christoph Mueller  2   6 , Charalampos Tsamakis  7 , Sofia Chaidou  8 , Demetrios A Spandidos  9 , Lampros Fotis  10 , Marina Economou  11 , Emmanouil Rizos  1
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COVID-19 related stress exacerbates common physical and mental pathologies and affects treatment (Review)

Konstantinos Tsamakis et al. Exp Ther Med. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global public health emergency resulting in unprecedented individual and societal fear and anxiety. The stress surrounding this biothreat appears to have clinical implications in all aspects of medicine, both in mental and physical health spheres. The impact of COVID-19 related anxiety in Cardiology, Paediatrics, Oncology, Dermatology, Neurology and Mental Health and how it affects treatments is discussed. Moreover, the need for introducing novel communication and therapeutic approaches is highlighted in the new landscape of the COVID-19 era.

Keywords: COVID-19; clinical implications; pandemic; physical and mental pathologies; stress; treatment.

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