Statin therapy in COVID-19 infection.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

119 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Effects of statin therapy in hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2023
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2. The Association Between the Use of Statins and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2022
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3. The use of statins was associated with reduced COVID-19 mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2021 · on this map
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4. Active prescription of low-dose aspirin during or prior to hospitalization and mortality in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis of adjusted effect estimates.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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5. In-hospital use of statins is associated with a reduced risk of mortality in coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19): systematic review and meta-analysis.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2021
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6. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and COVID-19: A Narrative Review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021
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7. Statin and aspirin as adjuvant therapy in hospitalised patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a randomised clinical trial (RESIST trial).BMC infectious diseases · 2022
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8. Impact of in-hospital statin use on mortality in COVID-19 patients from a majority African American population.Heart & lung : the journal of critical care
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9. Impact of prior statin use on clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients: data from tertiary referral hospitals during COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.Journal of clinical lipidology
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10. Recent advances in nutritional metabolism studies on SARS-CoV-2 infection.Infectious medicine · 2025
    Review
11. Immune modulation: the key to combat SARS-CoV-2 induced myocardial injury.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
    Review
12. Atorvastatin Effect on COVID-19 Outcomes: A Propensity Score Matched Study on Hospitalized Patients.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025
    Article
13. The importance of paying attention to the role of lipid-lowering drugs in controlling dengue virus infection.Virology journal · 2024
    Review
14. The Silent Syndrome of Long COVID and Gaps in Scientific Knowledge: A Narrative Review.Viruses · 2024
    Review
15. Inverse set estimation and inversion of simultaneous confidence intervals.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics · 2024
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16. The critical role of endothelial cell in the toxicity associated with chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy and intervention strategies.Annals of hematology · 2024
    Review
17. Effectiveness of Drug Repurposing and Natural Products Against SARS-CoV-2: A Comprehensive Review.Clinical pharmacology : advances and applications · 2024
    Review
18. The Intersection of COVID-19 and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Shared Mechanisms, Treatment Challenges, and Potential Therapeutic Approaches.Aging and disease · 2023
    Review
19. Statin Use in Relation to COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Infections: Muscle and Other Considerations.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
    Review
20. Long-Term Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Moderate and Severe COVID-19: A Focus on Early Statin Use and Previous CVD.The journal of Tehran Heart Center · 2023
    Article

59 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

Corrections and comments

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  Statin therapy in COVID-19 infection: much more than a single pathway.2020
• Comment on
  Potential Effects of Coronaviruses on the Cardiovascular System: A Review.2020

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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