Does COVID-19 Escalate Aging Process? A Possible Concern

Katayoun Tayeri; Kiarash Asadollahi; Navid Madani; Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard

doi:10.4103/abr.abr_350_21

Does COVID-19 Escalate Aging Process? A Possible Concern

Adv Biomed Res. 2022 Nov 28:11:106. doi: 10.4103/abr.abr_350_21. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Katayoun Tayeri¹, Kiarash Asadollahi², Navid Madani³, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Iranian Research Center of HIV and AIDS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High Risk Behaviors, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Dental Unit, Islamic Azad University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
³ Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Applied Physiology Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

A key challenge after the COVID-19 pandemic will be managing the long-term sequelae for the millions of individuals who recover from the disease. Based on the available evidence, our hypothesis is that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its long-term complications will lead to premature aging (in terms of health) of many people in the world. Obviously, to maintain appropriate public health and prevent poor health-care services, countries should think and plan about the health problems and the long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 after controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Aging; COVID-19; complications.