Xavier Gabaldó, Màrius Juanpere, Helena Castañé, Elisabet Rodríguez-Tomàs, Ana Felisa López-Azcona, Gerard Baiges-Gaya, Lourdes Castro, Enrique Valverde-Díaz, Aida Muñoz-Blázquez, Laura Giménez-Cuenca, Laura Felipo-Balada, Frederic Ballester, Isabel Pujol, Josep M Simó, Antoni Castro, Simona Iftimie, Jordi Camps, Jorge Joven
The development of inexpensive, fast, and reliable screening tests for COVID-19 is, as yet, an unmet need. The present study was aimed at evaluating the usefulness of serum arylesterase activity of paraoxonase-1 (PON1) measurement as a screening test in patients with different severity levels of COVID-19 infection. We included 615 COVID-19-positive patients who were classified as asymptomatic, mildly symptomatic, severely symptomatic, or fatally symptomatic. Results were compared with 50 healthy volunteers, 330 patients with cancer, and 343 with morbid obesity...
June 23, 2022: Biomolecules