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. 2020 Aug;81(2):e181-e182.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.06.031. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

Cardiac injury and prognosis in COVID-19: Methodological considerations and updated meta-analysis

Anastasios Kollias  1 , Konstantinos G Kyriakoulis  2 , Antonios Destounis  3 , George S Stergiou  2 , Konstantinos Syrigos  2
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Cardiac injury and prognosis in COVID-19: Methodological considerations and updated meta-analysis

Anastasios Kollias et al. J Infect. 2020 Aug.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Cardiac injury; Meta-analysis; Mortality; SARS-CoV-2; Troponin.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflict of interest. Funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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