ArticleThe British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science2022
Association between serum lithium level and incidence of COVID-19 infection.
Article in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Joint European policy on the COVID-19 risks for people with mental disorders: An umbrella review and evidence- and consensus-based recommendations for mental and public health.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2022Pooled it
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- Impact of Lithium on the Immune System: An Investigation of T-Cell Subpopulations and Cytokine Responses in Rats.Biological trace element research · 2025Article
- Reduced risk of severe COVID-19 with lithium use: a large-scale comparison with valproate users and other COVID-19 patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Alpha-Synucleinopathies: Potential Links and Underlying Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Effectiveness of ultra-long-term lithium treatment: relevant factors and case series.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2024Review
- COVID-19-associated mortality in individuals with serious mental disorders in Sweden during the first two years of the pandemic- a population-based register study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Using National COVID cohort collaborative (N3C) data to explore impact of COVID-19 infection on kidney function in patients receiving lithium therapy.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2024Article
- Sex differences in the cardiac stress response following SARS-CoV-2 infection of ferrets.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2023Article
- Acute blood biomarker profiles predict cognitive deficits 6 and 12 months after COVID-19 hospitalization.Nature medicine · 2023Article
- Long-Term Lithium Therapy: Side Effects and Interactions.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Neurological and psychiatric risk trajectories after SARS-CoV-2 infection: an analysis of 2-year retrospective cohort studies including 1 284 437 patients.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2022Article
- Case Reports: Exposure to SARS-CoV-2, Acute Kidney Injury, and Lithium Toxicity.Journal of clinical psychopharmacologyReview
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Abstract
An antiviral effect of lithium has been proposed, but never investigated for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Using electronic health records of 26 554 patients with documented serum lithium levels during the pandemic, we show that the 6-month COVID-19 infection incidence was lower among matched patients with 'therapeutic' (0.50-1.00) versus 'subtherapeutic' (0.05-0.50) lithium levels (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.82, 95% CI 0.69-0.97,
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