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Association between oral anticoagulants and COVID-19-related outcomes: a population-based cohort study
CONCLUSION: Among those at low baseline stroke risk, people receiving OACs had a lower risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and severe COVID-19 outcomes than non-users; this might be explained by a causal effect of OACs in preventing severe COVID-19 outcomes or unmeasured confounding, including more cautious behaviours leading to reduced infection risk.PMID:35440465 | DOI:10.3399/BJGP.2021.0689
Source: The British Journal of General Practice - April 20, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Angel Ys Wong Laurie Tomlinson Jeremy P Brown William Elson Alex J Walker Anna Schultze Caroline E Morton David Evans Peter Inglesby Brian MacKenna Krishnan Bhaskaran Christopher T Rentsch Emma Powell Elizabeth Williamson Richard Croker Seb Bacon William Source Type: research

COVID-19 and its cardiovascular effects: a systematic review of prevalence studies
In this short interview, Prof. John GF Cleland, senior author ofthis recently published Cochrane review, tells us about what this review found regarding the type of heart and blood vessel problems that complicate COVID-19 infections.Tell us about this review.This review first   focuses on cardiovascular problems pre-existing the development of COVID, usually in cases that were severe enough to require hospitalization. We know that older people are more likely to have cardiovascular disease and to be admitted with severe COVID. We are only looking at associations. It is unclear whether cardiovascular disease or age was the...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - March 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Rachel Klabunde Source Type: news