Comorbidities, multimorbidity and COVID-19

CD Russell, NI Lone, JK Baillie - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The influence of comorbidities on COVID-19 outcomes has been recognized since the
earliest days of the pandemic. But establishing causality and determining underlying …

A guide to immunotherapy for COVID-19

FL van de Veerdonk, E Giamarellos-Bourboulis… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Immune dysregulation is an important component of the pathophysiology of COVID-19. A
large body of literature has reported the effect of immune-based therapies in patients with …

Early treatment of COVID-19 with anakinra guided by soluble urokinase plasminogen receptor plasma levels: a double-blind, randomized controlled phase 3 trial

E Kyriazopoulou, G Poulakou, H Milionis, S Metallidis… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Early increase of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) serum levels is
indicative of increased risk of progression of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to …

Association between administration of IL-6 antagonists and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: a meta-analysis

P Domingo, I Mur, GM Mateo, M del Mar Gutierrez… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Clinical trials assessing the efficacy of IL-6 antagonists in patients hospitalized
for COVID-19 have variously reported benefit, no effect, and harm. Objective To estimate the …

Current and novel biomarkers of thrombotic risk in COVID-19: a consensus statement from the international COVID-19 thrombosis biomarkers colloquium

DA Gorog, RF Storey, PA Gurbel, US Tantry… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) predisposes patients to thrombotic and
thromboembolic events, owing to excessive inflammation, endothelial cell activation and …

COVID-19 therapeutics: Challenges and directions for the future

PC Robinson, DFL Liew, HL Tanner… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 triggering the COVID-19 pandemic ranks as arguably the
greatest medical emergency of the last century. COVID-19 has highlighted health disparities …

Casirivimab and imdevimab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

O Abani, A Abbas, F Abbas, M Abbas, S Abbasi… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Casirivimab and imdevimab are non-competing monoclonal antibodies that
bind to two different sites on the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike …

[HTML][HTML] Using genetic association data to guide drug discovery and development: review of methods and applications

S Burgess, AM Mason, AJ Grant, EAW Slob… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Evidence on the validity of drug targets from randomized trials is reliable but typically
expensive and slow to obtain. In contrast, evidence from conventional observational …

Autocrine vitamin D signaling switches off pro-inflammatory programs of TH1 cells

D Chauss, T Freiwald, R McGregor, B Yan, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms governing orderly shutdown and retraction of CD4+ type 1
helper T (TH1) cell responses remain poorly understood. Here we show that complement …

Convalescent plasma or hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID‐19: a living systematic review

I Monsef, C Doree, EM Wood… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Convalescent plasma and hyperimmune immunoglobulin may reduce mortality
in patients with viral respiratory diseases, and are currently being investigated in trials as …