Admission serum magnesium levels associated with short- and long-term clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients

Introduction: In the face of the global pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created, readily available prognostic markers may be of great use. Purpose(s): To evaluate the association between serum magnesium levels (sMg) on admission and clinical outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Method(s): We retrospectively analyzed all consecutive patients admitted to our medical center with a primary de novo diagnosis of COVID- 19.Demographic, clinical and laboratory data were extracted from the electronic medical record. Clinical outcomes were compared between five groups of patients according to the quintiles of sMg on hospital admission. Result(s): From 2,433 consecutive COVID-19 patients during the years 2020-2021, we included 1,522 patients with sMg on admission (1-3 day of hospitalization) (58% male, 69+/-17 years old). Patients were followed for a mean of 10+/-7 months. A low sMg level (1st quintile) was associated with higher rates of diabetes and steroid use, whereas a high sMg level (5th quintile) was associated with dyslipidemia, chronic kidney disease, andhigher levels of inflammatory markers (Table 1). Both low and high sMg levels were associated with lower oxygen saturation during hospitalization. All-cause in-hospital and long-term mortality was higher in patients with both low and high sMg levels, compared with mid-range sMg levels (2nd, 3rd and 4thquintiles;19% and 30% vs. 9.5%, 10.7% and 17.8% and 35% and 45.3% vs. 23%, 26.8% and 27.3% respectively;p<0.001 for all) (Figure 1). Conclusion(s): Both low and high sMg levels were associated with worse short- and long-term clinical outcomes and all-cause mortality in a large cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Thus, admission sMg levels may play a prognostic role in risk stratificationof COVID-19 patients. (Figure Presented).

The Asnaf Zakat Entrepreneurship Research Trend: A Systematic Literature Review

Entrepreneurship is proven as a medium in lifting an economic state of an individual or a community. It is also can be considered as an alternative area to be explored especially in the current situation where the world is affected by the pandemic of COVID-19 globally. It justifies the need to research this topic to leverage its benefits to various perspectives including the asnaf community. Unfortunately, despite its importance, limited studies have been found were conducted on entrepreneurship among asnaf community. Therefore, this research is initiating research on this topic by conducting a systematic literature review on the published works on entrepreneurship among asnaf community to explore the trend of the existing research works. A PRISMA approach is adapted to collect the relevant literature that is scoped only to the Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases. The result obtained from this research is expected will provide an overview of the trend of previously conducted research works on the entrepreneurship among asnaf community. Finally, it can be referred by a potential researcher in this topic to plan their future research. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.

Pandemic Closure in the Context of Death Sociology: Love, Sensation, and Nothingness

This study discusses the social closure of death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Modernism created death isolation by transferring illness over to hospitals. On the other hand, the pandemic has isolated death for the first time in the social sphere outside of a spatial area such as hospitals. The absence of a ready-made text discussing the sociology of death in studies related to pandemics reveals the original value of this study. Current studies cover death not as the main constituent item but as a complementary subtitle of other topics within the text. This study addresses death as the founding item and dominant actor of the pandemic process. The study seeks an answer to the question of why death should be discussed with regard to the pandemic. The text discusses the relationship between death and society through the concept of social closure, using the concept of social closure with a basis on love and sensation. The first part of the study deals with the concepts of isolation and closure through death. The concept of death desensitization is used with regard to social space itself and which the pandemic has numbed. The study focuses on questioning why death should always be on our agenda. This focus is also intended to raise discussions on how death is managed, both in discourse and in practice. The final stage of the study emphasizes death to be the reality that will update the state of society in the age of epidemics.