[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Comorbidities, multimorbidity and COVID-19

CD Russell, NI Lone, JK Baillie - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The influence of comorbidities on COVID-19 outcomes has been recognized since the
earliest days of the pandemic. But establishing causality and determining underlying …

[PDF][PDF] 15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic advances in COVID-19

N Murakami, R Hayden, T Hills, H Al-Samkari… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Over 2 years have passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed
millions of lives. Unlike the early days of the pandemic, when management decisions were …

[HTML][HTML] GWAS and meta-analysis identifies 49 genetic variants underlying critical COVID-19

E Pairo-Castineira, K Rawlik, AD Bretherick, T Qi, Y Wu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Critical illness in COVID-19 is an extreme and clinically homogeneous disease phenotype
that we have previously shown to be highly efficient for discovery of genetic associations …

From target discovery to clinical drug development with human genetics

K Trajanoska, C Bhérer, D Taliun, S Zhou, JB Richards… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The substantial investments in human genetics and genomics made over the past three
decades were anticipated to result in many innovative therapies. Here we investigate the …

[HTML][HTML] Higher dose corticosteroids in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 who are hypoxic but not requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised …

RECOVERY Collaborative Group - Lancet (London, England), 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Low-dose corticosteroids have been shown to reduce mortality for patients with
COVID-19 requiring oxygen or ventilatory support (non-invasive mechanical ventilation …

[HTML][HTML] Outcome of COVID-19 in hospitalised immunocompromised patients: An analysis of the WHO ISARIC CCP-UK prospective cohort study

L Turtle, M Thorpe, TM Drake, M Swets… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Immunocompromised patients may be at higher risk of mortality if hospitalised
with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) compared with immunocompetent patients …

[HTML][HTML] Fighting Post-COVID and ME/CFS–development of curative therapies

C Scheibenbogen, JT Bellmann-Strobl… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The sequela of COVID-19 include a broad spectrum of symptoms that fall under the umbrella
term post-COVID-19 condition or syndrome (PCS). Immune dysregulation, autoimmunity …

[HTML][HTML] Tocilizumab versus baricitinib in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19: an open label, randomized controlled trial

T Karampitsakos, O Papaioannou, P Tsiri… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Randomized controlled trials comparing tocilizumab and baricitinib in patients with
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are needed. This was an open-label, randomized …