TY - JOUR
TI - COVID-19 related stress exacerbates common physical and mental
pathologies and affects treatment (Review)
AU - Tsamakis, Konstantinos
AU - S. Triantafyllis, Andreas
AU - Tsiptsios,
AU - Dimitrios
AU - Spartalis, Eleftherios
AU - Mueller, Christoph and
AU - Tsamakis, Charalampos
AU - Chaidou, Sofia
AU - A. Spandidos, Demetrios and
AU - Fotis, Lampros
AU - Economou, Marina
AU - Rizos, Emmanouil
JO - Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
PY - 2020
VL - 20
TODO - 1
SP - 159-162
PB - SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
SN - 1792-0981, 1792-1015
TODO - 10.3892/etm.2020.8671
TODO - COVID-19; pandemic; physical and mental pathologies; stress; treatment;
clinical implications
TODO - 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.
ER -