Al-Marsad newspaper: A new research paper published in the latest issue of the journal “Nature” revealed the reason why the Corona virus killed some people, while others recovered from it very easily.
During experiments using experimental mice, researchers from Rockefeller University showed that mice with genetic variants previously associated with Alzheimer’s disease were more at risk of death when infected with the emerging corona virus, which causes Covid-19 disease.
This finding is consistent with a retrospective analysis, which revealed that patients with the same genetic variants were more likely to die throughout the epidemic, and given that 3% of the world’s population possesses these genetic variants, the results may have implications for hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide. world level. According to “Al Arabiya.net”.
It is clear that age, gender and some diseases such as diabetes increase the risk of adverse outcomes when infected with the Corona virus, but this is the first time we have seen such a common genetic variant associated with deaths COVID-19″.
