Immunosenescence and COVID-19.
Mech Ageing Dev
; 204: 111672, 2022 06.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2015814
ABSTRACT
Ageing is associated with modified function of both innate and adaptive immunity. It is believed that changes occurring in ageing immune system are responsible for increased severity and deadliness of COVID-19 in the elderly. Although supported by statistics and epidemiology, these finding do not compute at the mechanistic level as depending solely on chronological and biological ageing. The phenomena describing changes in the aging immune system are immunosenescence and inflammageing, which develop in time depending on challenges to the individual immune system (immunobiography). Thus, "richer" immunobiography (in addition to other factors, including genetic, epigenetics or metabolic) may adversely affect the reactivity to the SARS-CoV-2 not only at later decades of life, but also earlier, in young and middle-aged individuals. On the other hand, infection with SARS-CoV-2 is affecting the function of both innate and adaptive branches of the immune system, adding to the individual immunobiography. Summarizing, immunosenescence and inflammaging may aggravate, but also may be aggravated by SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Immunosenescence
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Mech Ageing Dev
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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