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Kathrin Kahnert
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessPeriod of hospitalization and mortality in transferred versus non-transferred COVID-19 patients: results from Germany
COVID-19 was a challenge for health-care systems worldwide, causing large numbers of hospitalizations and inter-hospital transfers. We studied whether transfer, as well as its reason, was associated with the d...
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Open AccessCardiovascular predictors of mortality and exacerbations in patients with COPD
In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), comorbidities and worse functional status predict worse outcomes, but how these predictors compare with regard to different outcomes is not well studied. We thu...
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Open AccessSex-specific associations of comorbidome and pulmorbidome with mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from COSYCONET
In patients with COPD, it has not been comprehensively assessed whether the predictive value of comorbidities for mortality differs between men and women. We therefore aimed to examine sex differences of COPD ...
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Open AccessReduced decline of lung diffusing capacity in COPD patients with diabetes and metformin treatment
We studied whether in patients with COPD the use of metformin for diabetes treatment was linked to a pattern of lung function decline consistent with the hypothesis of anti-aging effects of metformin. Patients...
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Open AccessSystemic inflammation and pro-inflammatory cytokine profile predict response to checkpoint inhibitor treatment in NSCLC: a prospective study
Treatment with single agent immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has tremendously changed second line therapy in NSCLC. However, there are still no reliable biomarkers predicting response and survival in this g...
