[Meta-analysis evaluating the risk of respiratory tract infections and acute respiratory distress syndrome with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in cardiovascular outcome trials: Useful implications for the COVID-19 pandemic].

D Patoulias, A Boulmpou, K Imprialos, K Stavropoulos, C Papadopoulos, M Doumas

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Article in Revista clinica espanola, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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D PatouliasSecond Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Hospital «Hippokration», Thessaloniki, Grecia.

A BoulmpouThird Department of Cardiology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Hospital «Hippokration», Thessaloniki, Grecia.

K ImprialosSecond Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Hospital «Hippokration», Thessaloniki, Grecia.

K StavropoulosSecond Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Hospital «Hippokration», Thessaloniki, Grecia.

C PapadopoulosThird Department of Cardiology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Hospital «Hippokration», Thessaloniki, Grecia.

M DoumasSecond Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Hospital «Hippokration», Thessaloniki, Grecia.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · GR

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Abstract

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at increased risk for severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and related mortality. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1-RAs) have significant cardiovascular and renal benefits for patients with T2DM and related comorbidities. Their anti-inflammatory properties could be beneficial in these patients. This work provides less-biased estimates regarding the risk for respiratory tract infections and acute respiratory distress syndrome by performing the first significant meta-analysis of cardiovascular outcome trials in the literature. Notably, GLP-1-RAs do not seem to increase the risk for respiratory tract infection, pneumonia, or acute respiratory distress syndrome in patients with T2DM and cardiovascular comorbidities.

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COVID-19Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonistsPneumoniaRespiratory infectionType 2 diabetes mellitus

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PMID33935292

DOI10.1016/j.rce.2021.04.001

PMCPMC8075844

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