Endocrine Abstracts

Morphometric-Vertebral Fractures (VFs), which were widely demonstrated to reduce overall-survival and respiratory function in the general population, have been recently reported to be highly prevalent in COVID-19 patients. Emerging data show negative respiratory sequelae at long-term follow-up in COVID-19 survivors. The aim of this study is to evaluate the VFs influence on respiratory function of COVID-19 survivors. We included COVID-19 patients admitted at San Raffaele-Hospit...

Hypocalcemia has been recently identified as a major biochemical distinctive feature of COVID-19, predicting poor clinical outcomes. Besides the calcium-dependent viral mechanisms of action and the enhanced cellular permeability to calcium ions, we previously hypothesized that hypovitaminosis-D could be a predisposing factor to hypocalcemia. Actually, high prevalence of vitamin D (VD) deficiency in COVID-19 patients (pts) was reported by several studies, but, to date, only few...