Two types of steroid found to save lives of some Covid-19 patients

[JacksinPA]

Two types of steroid found to save lives of some Covid-19 patients | Medical research | The Guardian

Analysis of seven trials finds dexamethasone and hydrocortisone should be given in severe cases

Studies around the world have confirmed that steroids can save lives in the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to new recommendations from the World Heath Organization that doctors should give them to severely ill patients.

In June, the Recovery trial run in most NHS hospitals and led by Oxford University found that the lives of one in eight people sick enough from Covid-19 to need a ventilator could be saved by a steroid called dexamethasone.

Now, combined results from that trial and six others have confirmed those findings and established that at least one other equally cheap and widely available steroid, hydrocortisone, also saves lives.

The drugs reduce the risk of death in these seriously ill patients by 20%, according to a meta-analysis of the results of the seven trials covering a total of 1,703 patients, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Three of the trials have also been published separately in the journal.
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Considerable progress.

 

[humbolt]

Good news. But they're inexpensive, and if Trump mrntions them, it's tantamount to the kiss of death.

 

[Risky Thicket]

Good news. But they're inexpensive, and if Trump mrntions them, it's tantamount to the kiss of death.

If Trump asks WHO about it he'll have to "ask for a friend" because Trump has made the US null and void as far WHO goes.

 

[humbolt]

If Trump asks WHO about it he'll have to "ask for a friend" because Trump has made the US null and void as far WHO goes.

The WHO has been bought by China.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Good news. But they're inexpensive, and if Trump mrntions them, it's tantamount to the kiss of death.

That is somewhat unfair

The anti malarial drug was cheap and pushed by Trump

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

The WHO has been bought by China.

And you believe that because Trump said so?

 

[snakestretcher]

The WHO has been bought by China.

Who told you that? I know, that orange fella!

 

[humbolt]

That is somewhat unfair

The anti malarial drug was cheap and pushed by Trump

I was being sarcastic.

 

[humbolt]

And you believe that because Trump said so?

I don't believe anything about HCQ one way or the other, but it was trashed well before any serious studies were completed.

 

[humbolt]

Who told you that? I know, that orange fella!

No, the grand poobah at WHO.

 

[Gladiator]

Two types of steroid found to save lives of some Covid-19 patients | Medical research | The Guardian

Analysis of seven trials finds dexamethasone and hydrocortisone should be given in severe cases

Studies around the world have confirmed that steroids can save lives in the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to new recommendations from the World Heath Organization that doctors should give them to severely ill patients.

In June, the Recovery trial run in most NHS hospitals and led by Oxford University found that the lives of one in eight people sick enough from Covid-19 to need a ventilator could be saved by a steroid called dexamethasone.

Now, combined results from that trial and six others have confirmed those findings and established that at least one other equally cheap and widely available steroid, hydrocortisone, also saves lives.

The drugs reduce the risk of death in these seriously ill patients by 20%, according to a meta-analysis of the results of the seven trials covering a total of 1,703 patients, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Three of the trials have also been published separately in the journal.
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Considerable progress.

Thanks for the info.