Medical workers in the intensive care unit. Archival photo MOSCOW, Jan. 4 Allegations of premature aging due to COVID-19 are unfounded and require confirmation, Sergei Voznesensky, associate professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the RUDN University, told RBC. The scientist noted that this requires more research and to expand the statistical base. «It is somewhat far-fetched to assert that the transferred infection is an absolute fact of a decrease in life expectancy.» At the same time, according to him, you need to watch how the coronavirus is superimposed on a person's pathologies. «I would not build a direct causal relationship without some concomitant pathology,» the virologist emphasized. Voznesensky cited the pathology of the vascular system as an example, which can occur in people with chronic diseases, for example, with venous insufficiency or hypertension. 
