Röhr, Susanne Reininghaus, Ulrich Riedel-Heller, Steffi G.
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BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundOlder individuals are at increased risk of a severe and lethal course of COVID-19. They have typically been advised to practice particularly restrictive social distancing (‘cocooning’), which has sparked much debate on the consequences for their mental wellbeing. We aimed to provide evidence by conducting a representative survey among the...
Salfi, Federico Lauriola, Marco Amicucci, Giulia Corigliano, Domenico Viselli, Lorenzo Tempesta, Daniela Ferrara, Michele
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Neurobiology of Stress
• Women maintain the most severe sleep and psychological disturbances during lockdown. • Only men show a deterioration over time of sleep and psychological well-being. • Women prove a greater long-term resilience to the extension of the home confinement. • Gender gap of clinical insomnia and depression decreases after one month of lockdown.
Prabhu Navis, Joshi Leelarathna, Lalantha Mubita, Womba Urwin, Andrea Rutter, Martin K. Schofield, Jonathan Thabit, Hood
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Acta Diabetologica
Aims People with type 1 diabetes (T1D) face the daily task of implementing self-management strategies to achieve their glycaemic goals. The UK COVID-19 lockdown has had an impact on day-to-day behaviour, which may affect diabetes self-management and outcomes. We assessed whether sensor-based outcomes pre- and during lockdown periods were different ...
Mehl, Alicia Bergey, Francois Cawley, Caoimhe Gilsdorf, Andreas
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JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background Unprecedented lockdown measures have been introduced in countries worldwide to mitigate the spread and consequences of COVID-19. Although attention has been focused on the effects of these measures on epidemiological indicators relating directly to the infection, there is increased recognition of their broader health implications. Howeve...
Rodríguez-Benito, Cristina V. Navarro, Gabriel Caballero, Isabel
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Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Copernicus programme provides crucial data during the COVID-19 lockdown in Chile. • Sentinel-2/3 satellites allow monitoring an algal bloom harmful for the aquaculture. • A dinoflagellates bloom produces massive salmonid mortalities in the harvesting sites. • Mesoscale and high-resolution satellite data detect precise location of the HAB. • Early...
Brener, Avivit Mazor-Aronovitch, Kineret Rachmiel, Marianna Levek, Noa Barash, Galia Pinhas-Hamiel, Orit Lebenthal, Yael Landau, Zohar
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Acta Diabetologica
Aims Billions of people have been under lockdown in an attempt to prevent COVID-19 spread. Lifestyle changes during lockdown could lead to deterioration of glycemic control in type 1 diabetes (T1D). We aimed to assess the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the glycemic control of pediatric patients with T1D. Methods This observational real-life study f...
Daniel Reegan, Appadurai Rajiv Gandhi, Munusamy Cruz Asharaja, Antony Devi, Chitra Shanthakumar, Shanmugam Perumal
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Heliyon
COVID-19 lockdown, Aedes surveillance, Larval indices, Species dominance index, vector-borne disease, Public Health, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Entomology, Insects, Health Sciences.
Biswal, Akash Singh, Tanbir Singh, Vikas Ravindra, Khaiwal Mor, Suman
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Heliyon
The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 pandemic a global public health emergency. Many countries of the world, including India, closed their borders and imposed a nationwide lockdown. In India, the lockdown was declared on March 24 for 21 days (March 25-April 14, 2020) and was later extended until May 3, 2020. During the lockdown, ...
Mor, Suman Kumar, Sahil Singh, Tanbir Dogra, Sushil Pandey, Vivek Ravindra, Khaiwal
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Chemosphere
• Studied impact of COVID-19 lockdown phases on 14 air quality parameters. • Reduction in pollutants found to be associated with meteorology and emissions. • Increase in O3 concentration was linked with atmospheric reactivity. • Key emission sources identified were vehicles, stubble burning, and coal power plants. • VOCs variations shows associatio...
Alqurshi, Abdulmalik
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Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal : SPJ
Background COVID-19 lockdown has forced pharmacy education to be conducted remotely for approximately half of the second semester in the year 2019/2020. This sudden shift to distance learning has put the pharmacy education system through an extraordinary experience that may impact its future. Objective To investigate the effect emergency remote tea...
