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Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis

INTRODUCTION: Approximately 1% of the world population has now been infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). With cases still rising and vaccines just beginning to rollout, we are still several months away from se...

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Autores principales: Vahedian-Azimi, Amir, Mohammadi, Seyede Momeneh, Heidari Beni, Farshad, Banach, Maciej, Guest, Paul C., Jamialahmadi, Tannaz, Sahebkar, Amirhossein
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8130467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34025827
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms/132950
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author Vahedian-Azimi, Amir
Mohammadi, Seyede Momeneh
Heidari Beni, Farshad
Banach, Maciej
Guest, Paul C.
Jamialahmadi, Tannaz
Sahebkar, Amirhossein
author_facet Vahedian-Azimi, Amir
Mohammadi, Seyede Momeneh
Heidari Beni, Farshad
Banach, Maciej
Guest, Paul C.
Jamialahmadi, Tannaz
Sahebkar, Amirhossein
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description INTRODUCTION: Approximately 1% of the world population has now been infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). With cases still rising and vaccines just beginning to rollout, we are still several months away from seeing reductions in daily case numbers, hospitalisations, and mortality. Therefore, there is a still an urgent need to control the disease spread by repurposing existing therapeutics. Owing to antiviral, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, and cardioprotective actions, statin therapy has been considered as a plausible approach to improve COVID-19 outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We carried out a meta-analysis to investigate the effect of statins on 3 COVID-19 outcomes: intensive care unit (ICU) admission, tracheal intubation, and death. We systematically searched the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases using keywords related to our aims up to November 2, 2020. All published observational studies and randomised clinical trials on COVID-19 and statins were retrieved. Statistical analysis with random effects modelling was performed using STATA16 software. RESULTS: The final selected studies (n = 24 studies; 32,715 patients) showed significant reductions in ICU admission (OR = 0.78, 95% CI: 0.58–1.06; n = 10; I(2) = 58.5%) and death (OR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.55–0.88; n = 21; I(2) = 82.5%) outcomes, with no significant effect on tracheal intubation (OR = 0.79; 95% CI: 0.57–1.11; n = 7; I(2)= 89.0%). Furthermore, subgroup analysis suggested that death was reduced further by in-hospital application of stains (OR = 0.40, 95% CI: 0.22–0.73, n = 3; I(2) = 82.5%), compared with pre-hospital use (OR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.60–0.98, n = 18; I(2) = 81.8%). CONCLUSIONS: These findings call attention to the need for systematic clinical studies to assess both pre- and in-hospital use of statins as a potential means of reducing COVID-19 disease severity, particularly in terms of reduction of ICU admission and total mortality reduction.
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spelling pubmed-81304672021-05-21 Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis Vahedian-Azimi, Amir Mohammadi, Seyede Momeneh Heidari Beni, Farshad Banach, Maciej Guest, Paul C. Jamialahmadi, Tannaz Sahebkar, Amirhossein Arch Med Sci Systematic review/Meta-analysis INTRODUCTION: Approximately 1% of the world population has now been infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). With cases still rising and vaccines just beginning to rollout, we are still several months away from seeing reductions in daily case numbers, hospitalisations, and mortality. Therefore, there is a still an urgent need to control the disease spread by repurposing existing therapeutics. Owing to antiviral, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, and cardioprotective actions, statin therapy has been considered as a plausible approach to improve COVID-19 outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We carried out a meta-analysis to investigate the effect of statins on 3 COVID-19 outcomes: intensive care unit (ICU) admission, tracheal intubation, and death. We systematically searched the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases using keywords related to our aims up to November 2, 2020. All published observational studies and randomised clinical trials on COVID-19 and statins were retrieved. Statistical analysis with random effects modelling was performed using STATA16 software. RESULTS: The final selected studies (n = 24 studies; 32,715 patients) showed significant reductions in ICU admission (OR = 0.78, 95% CI: 0.58–1.06; n = 10; I(2) = 58.5%) and death (OR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.55–0.88; n = 21; I(2) = 82.5%) outcomes, with no significant effect on tracheal intubation (OR = 0.79; 95% CI: 0.57–1.11; n = 7; I(2)= 89.0%). Furthermore, subgroup analysis suggested that death was reduced further by in-hospital application of stains (OR = 0.40, 95% CI: 0.22–0.73, n = 3; I(2) = 82.5%), compared with pre-hospital use (OR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.60–0.98, n = 18; I(2) = 81.8%). CONCLUSIONS: These findings call attention to the need for systematic clinical studies to assess both pre- and in-hospital use of statins as a potential means of reducing COVID-19 disease severity, particularly in terms of reduction of ICU admission and total mortality reduction. Termedia Publishing House 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8130467/ /pubmed/34025827 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms/132950 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Termedia & Banach https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
spellingShingle Systematic review/Meta-analysis
Vahedian-Azimi, Amir
Mohammadi, Seyede Momeneh
Heidari Beni, Farshad
Banach, Maciej
Guest, Paul C.
Jamialahmadi, Tannaz
Sahebkar, Amirhossein
Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_fullStr Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full_unstemmed Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_short Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_sort improved covid-19 icu admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
topic Systematic review/Meta-analysis
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8130467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34025827
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms/132950
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