Minerva medica
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Retraction Of Publication
Retraction of: "Network meta-analysis: a new analysis tool of the experimental evidence".
The paper entitled "Network meta-analysis: a new analysis tool of the experimental evidence" by Renato De Vecchis et al., which was published in Minerva Medica 2019 Apr;110(2):173-5, has been retracted by the Publisher due to self-plagiarism. The originally published version of this article is available at https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4806.18.05768-3.
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The COVID-19 disease wreaked havoc all over the world causing more than 6 million deaths out of over 519 million confirmed cases. It not only disturbed the human race health-wise but also caused huge economic losses and social disturbances. The utmost urgency to counter pandemic was to develop effective vaccines as well as treatments that could reduce the incidences of infection, hospitalization and deaths. ⋯ The SARS-CoV-2 emerging variants have emphasized the need of booster vaccine doses to enhance protective immunity in vaccinated individuals. Additionally, therapeutic effectiveness of Molnupiravir, Paxlovid and Evusheld are also providing resistance against the spread of COVID-19 disease as well as may be effective against emerging variants. This review highlights the progress in developing COVID-19 vaccines, their protective efficacies, advances being made to design more efficacious vaccines, and presents an overview on advancements in developing potent drugs and monoclonal antibodies for countering COVID-19 and emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 including the most recently emerged and highly mutated Omicron variant.
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During the last decade, a number of clinical scores, such as Gender-Age-Physiology (GAP) Index, TORVAN Score and Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), have been separately used to measure comorbidity burden in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). However, no previous study compared the prognostic value of these scores to assess mortality risk stratification in IPF patients with mild-to-moderate disease. ⋯ Due to the increased atherosclerotic and comorbidity burden, IPF patients with CCI ≥6 at an early-stage disease have poor outcome over medium-term follow-up.