Blood tests can predict the severity of covid-19, Research

When a patient arrives in a hospital emergency room as a result of Covid-19, doctors have little means of predicting what their condition may be in the coming days.

However, it may be possible to find out through blood tests. This was revealed in a study conducted in the United States.

The Yale University study found that blood tests could identify biomarkers linked to blood cell motility and obesity, which could predict the severity of the disease in patients with Covid-19.

Blood tests offer an early indicator of severe COVID-19, a study says. 

Dr. Hyung Chun, a researcher involved in the study published in the medical journal Blood Advances said that these people have higher levels of these biological signals, they need to be admitted to the ICU, need a ventilator, or have a higher risk of death.

Earlier in the day, research reports had suggested that the code could be used to identify a potentially serious disease. Demir and immune proteins were identified.

So far, however, no test has been developed that can predict the severity of the disease in cod patients.

For this study, researchers screened several proteins in the blood of 100 patients with Covid to determine the severity of the disease.

Blood samples from all patients were taken on the first day of hospitalization, while clinical data from more than 3,000 patients treated at the Yale-New Haven Hospital systems were also analyzed.

They discovered that 5 proteins, Resiston, Lipocalin 2, HGF, IL8, and GCSF, are linked to neutrophils, a type of white blood cell. The level of Covid-19 increases the number of seriously ill people.

Most of these proteins have been linked to obesity in the past, but this is the first time they have been linked to Covid or a viral disease.

Research has shown that these biomarkers increase in patients who do not show symptoms, but later the disease became more severe.

Similarly, the rate of these biomarkers is lower in people with mild to severe disease and none of them have died.

The researchers said that this was the first time that the level of protein in the blood of Covid-19 could be used to predict the severity of the disease.

He said that making such a prediction early could be more helpful in treating the patient.

He said that if the diagnostic test (of these biomarkers) is done early, it will be better to realize which person may be suffering from a severe disease so that it can be taken care of more.

The study also emphasized the link between Covid-19 and obesity.

The researchers said that the link between obesity and covid is understandable because both of them cause inflammation in the body which destroys the body.