Bradley van Paridon

Study authors assess the association between statin therapy and in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19 and concomitant diabetes mellitus.

The effect of therapeutic anticoagulation with enoxaparin vs prophylactic anticoagulation with unfractionated heparin was assessed in severe COVID-19 patients.

Study authors conducted a multinational meta-analysis in SARS-CoV-2 patients to assess the risk of stroke relative to the general population and to identify risk factors of stroke.

Researchers developed a microsimulation model of the natural history of injection opioid use to assess long-term infective endocarditis mortality associated with injection opioid use in the United States.

Researchers evaluated prevalence of and sociodemographic disparities in influenza vaccination among individuals with ASCVD.

Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio may be a valuable biomarker to help clinicians recognize severe COVID-19 infection with moderate to severe ARDS.

Treatment with the thrombin inhibitor dabigatran was associated with a decreased incidence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia compared with treatment with the factor Xa inhibitors rivaroxaban and apixaban.

A team of investigators reviewed data from institutions within the VA healthcare system to assess the ability of 2 algorithms to identify patients with intravenous drug use-associated infective endocarditis.

Among 121 healthcare personnel exposed to a patient with unrecognized COVID-19, 43 became symptomatic and 3 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Hear me, protect me, prepare me, support me and care for me was the message health care professionals dealing with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic delivered to their organizations.