FOE AND FRIEND IN THE COVID-19-ASSOCIATED ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY: AN INSIGHT ON INTRARENAL RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM

Foe and friend in the COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: an insight on intrarenal renin-angiotensin system

Since the first reported case in December of 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has became an international public health emergency.So far, there are more than 228,206,384 confirmed cases including 4,687,066 deaths.Kidney with high expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is one of the extrapulmonary target organs affected in

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Agency, access, and Anopheles: neighborhood health perceptions and the implications for community health interventions in Accra, Ghana

Background: Social and environmental factors are increasingly recognized for their ability to influence health outcomes at both individual and neighborhood scales in the developing urban world.Yet issues of spatial heterogeneity in these complex environments may obscure unique elements of neighborhood life that may be protective or harmful to human

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