Impact of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic on health status in patients with cystic fibrosis: a mono-centre observational study

Stephanie Thee; Leonie Marie Busack; Marcus A Mall; Mirjam Stahl

doi:10.1183/23120541.00588-2021

Impact of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic on health status in patients with cystic fibrosis: a mono-centre observational study

ERJ Open Res. 2022 Mar 14;8(1):00588-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00588-2021. eCollection 2022 Jan.

Authors

Stephanie Thee¹, Leonie Marie Busack¹, Marcus A Mall^{1

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4}, Mirjam Stahl^{1

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4}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
² German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Associated Partner, Berlin, Germany.
³ Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ These authors contributed equally.

Abstract

FEV₁ % predicted decreased substantially in paediatric patients with #cysticfibrosis during the first lockdown of the ongoing #SARSCoV2 pandemic in Germany. More information on consequences of repetitive shutdowns in people with cystic fibrosis is needed. https://bit.ly/3fZwuIb.