COVID-19 — Worldwide/Unknown
Patients who used statins prior to COVID-19 hospitalization were almost 50% less likely to experience 30-day in-hospital mortality compared with those that didn’t, according to a retrospective study published late last week in Nature Communications [see [B] below].
Statins are drugs meant to reduce blood fat for conditions such as high cholesterol, and, as such, they have anti-inflammatory and anti-clotting properties.
The researchers matched 648 patients who used statins and were
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