Association between antecedent statin use and decreased mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Association between antecedent statin use and decreased mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Statins, which have anti-inflammatory and antithrombotic properties, could have effects in COVID-19 patients. Here, the authors find in a retrospective analysis of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 that antecedent statin use is associated with lower inpatient mortality.

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Main Authors: Aakriti Gupta, Mahesh V. Madhavan, Timothy J. Poterucha, Ersilia M. DeFilippis, Jessica A. Hennessey, Bjorn Redfors, Christina Eckhardt, Behnood Bikdeli, Jonathan Platt, Ani Nalbandian, Pierre Elias, Matthew J. Cummings, Shayan N. Nouri, Matthew Lawlor, Lauren S. Ranard, Jianhua Li, Claudia Boyle, Raymond Givens, Daniel Brodie, Harlan M. Krumholz, Gregg W. Stone, Sanjum S. Sethi, Daniel Burkhoff, Nir Uriel, Allan Schwartz, Martin B. Leon, Ajay J. Kirtane, Elaine Y. Wan, Sahil A. Parikh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21553-1

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21553-1

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