Anti-inflammatory steroid dexamethasone effective in severe COVID cases: Study
COVID-19 patients who took the anti-inflammatory steroid
while hooked up to oxygen at a hospital had “significantly reduced” odds of dying there or going into hospice care, a study has found.Monday in JAMA Network Open, analyzing the results of a clinical trial at one large hospital system. They examined the records of 80,699 patients hospitalized with COVID respiratory illness for at least two days in 156 hospitals between July 1, 2020, and Oct. 31, 2021.
The study found patients requiring supplemental oxygen, mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were less likely to die or be discharged to hospice after taking“These results support the continued use of systemicWhile “thousands of trials exploring novel and repurposed drugs” like
have unfolded over the past three years, “few effective therapeutics are available to hospitalized patients with COVID-19,” the study noted. Current COVID treatment guidelines from the National Institutes of Health recommend doctors use corticosteroids like
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