The assessment of serum ACE activity in COVID-19 and its association with clinical features and severity of the disease.
Scand J Clin Lab Invest
; 81(2): 160-165, 2021 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1039680
ABSTRACT
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)/Angiotensin (Ang) II pathway has crucial regulatory effects on circulatory hemostasis and immune responses. This pathway has a major role in the development of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is a devastating complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The aim of this study is to investigate the serum ACE activity and its correlation with clinical features and the disease severity in patients with COVID-19. Patients with confirmed COVID-19 by detecting SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid RT-PCR were included in the study. Demographic data, clinical features, laboratory and radiologic investigations were recorded. Patients were classified by disease severity; asymptomatic, mild, and severe pneumonia. The serum ACE activity was evaluated with an autoanalyzer based on a spectrophotometric method. Fifty-five patients (50.9% female) and 18 healthy subjects (33.3 % female) were enrolled in the study. The median age of patients was 40 years, ranging from 22 to 81 years. Eighteen healthy subjects were served as the control group. The baseline characteristics were comparable between groups. The median serum ACE activity of patients and controls (38.00 [IQR 21] U/L and 32.00 [IQR 24] U/L, respectively) and of between patients grouped by disease severity (38.5 [IQR 19], 36 [IQR 25], and 38 [IQR 22] U/L, asymptomatic, mild and severe pneumonia group, respectively) were similar. There was no correlation between the serum ACE activity and conventional inflammatory markers. In this study, we did not find an association between serum ACE activity and COVID-19 and serum ACE activity on admission did not reflect disease severity.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Severity of Illness Index
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Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Scand J Clin Lab Invest
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
00365513.2021.1871641
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