Effects of Asthma on Covid-19 Patients

Effects of Asthma on Covid-19 Patients

Annotated Bibliography

Broadhurst, R., Peterson, R., Wisnivesky, J. P., Federman, A., Zimmer, S. M., Sharma, S., … & Holguin, F. (2020). Asthma in COVID-19 hospitalizations: an overestimated risk factor? Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 17(12), 1645-1648.

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1513/AnnalsATS.202006-613RL

Broadhurst et al. (2020) sought to establish whether asthma is a risk factor to covid 19 patients and whether it increases hospitalization. The researchers conducted a thorough analysis of various literature review materials. The results of the study indicated that the likelihood of hospitalization among covid 19 patients who have asthma was actually lower compared to those who had influenza. These findings denote that Asthma does not increase the likelihood of hospitalization among covid 19 patients. This study is particularly important to my research topic since it provides a unique perspective on the effects of asthma on covid 19 patients, particularly on hospitalization rate.

Choi, Y. J., Park, J. Y., Lee, H. S., Suh, J., Song, J. Y., Byun, M. K., … & Park, H. J. (2021). Effect of asthma and asthma medication on the prognosis of patients with COVID-19. European Respiratory Journal, 57(3).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32978309/

Choi et al. (2021) showcases the research finding of a study conducted on 7950 covid 19 patients. Out of these 218 of them had an underlying asthmatic condition. The results of the study further revealed that Asthma was not the sole risk factor for hospitalization among Covid 19 patients. Also, the results revealed that covid 19 patients who had asthmatic conditions had a larger hospital bill compared to those who didn’t have asthma due to the constant oral short-acting agonists that the patient is given. This article is an important resource since it displays the effect of Asthma on Covid 19 hospital bills and will greatly aid in my research.