Articles Tagged With: hospitalization
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Vaccines Saved 1 Million Lives in 2021
COVID-19 vaccines prevented an estimated 1 million deaths and 10 million hospitalizations in the United States in 2021, according to a new modeling study by the Commonwealth Fund.
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Analysts Suggest U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Program Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations, Deaths
The pandemic has taken a heavy toll, but the damage could be so much worse without vaccines.
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Children Hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2
Two recently published studies give a clear, consistent finding: About three-fourths of children hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 do not have severe COVID-19-related illness but are merely identified as infected when subjected to screening tests. Surveys reporting the number or incidence of SARS-CoV-2-infected hospitalized children likely overestimate the actual burden of disease.
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Iron Therapy for Acute Heart Failure
Giving intravenous ferric carboxymaltose to stabilized post-acute heart failure patients with iron deficiency improved quality of life vs. placebo-treated patients within four weeks, which persisted during subsequent therapy for up to 24 weeks. -
Vaccines Are Available, but the Search for COVID-19 Therapeutics Continues
Right after the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for one drug, feds pressed pause on distributing another. -
Vitamin D and COVID-19
Low levels of vitamin D are associated with in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19, but causality is unknown.
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Low BNP Levels in Up to 16% of Heart Failure Patients
In patients with clinical heart failure and low B-type natriuretic peptide levels, the authors found these patients usually are young and obese, with higher ejection fraction and better renal function.
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Cognitive Deficits in Patients Recovering from COVID-19
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with cognitive complaints demonstrate reduced attention and executive dysfunction on formal cognitive testing consistent with the same frequency and pattern of cognitive changes associated with critical illness.
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Vericiguat Tablets (Verquvo)
Vericiguat is indicated to lower the risk of cardiovascular death and heart failure hospitalization in adults with symptomatic chronic heart failure and an ejection fraction less than 45%.
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Prior Metformin Use in Patients with Diabetes Hospitalized for COVID-19
Investigators found metformin use before COVID-19 hospitalization for patients with diabetes was associated with a lower risk of death.