COVID-19: breaking down a global health crisis

SI Mallah, OK Ghorab, S Al-Salmi, OS Abdellatif… - Annals of clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the second pandemic of the twenty-first
century, with over one-hundred million infections and over two million deaths to date. It is a …

[HTML][HTML] Early use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in COVID-19 might reverse pathogenesis, prevent complications and improve clinical outcomes

MT Kelleni - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
The pathogenesis of Coronavirus disease 2019 is still obscure and the need for exploration
of possible mechanisms to suggest drugs based on knowledge should never be delayed. In …

Ibuprofen and NSAID use in COVID-19 infected patients is not associated with worse outcomes: a prospective cohort study

LC Abu Esba, RA Alqahtani, A Thomas… - Infectious diseases and …, 2021 - Springer
Introduction Ibuprofen disappeared from the pharmacy shelves during the 2019 coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic. However, a while later, information circulated that ibuprofen should …

Impaired immune response mediated by prostaglandin E2 promotes severe COVID-19 disease

M Ricke-Hoch, E Stelling, L Lasswitz, AP Gunesch… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has led to a pandemic with millions of people affected. The
present study finds that risk-factors for severe COVID-19 disease courses, ie male sex, older …

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pharmacological, physical, and psychological treatments of pain: Findings from the Chronic Pain & COVID-19 Pan-Canadian …

A Lacasse, MG Pagé, L Dassieu, N Sourial… - Pain …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: This study aimed at exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on
pharmacological and physical/psychological treatments of CP. Methods: A Pan-Canadian …

Paracetamol-induced glutathione consumption: is there a link with severe COVID-19 illness?

P Sestili, C Fimognari - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 pandemic is posing an unprecedented sanitary threat: antiviral and host-directed
medications to treat the disease are urgently needed. A great effort has been paid to find …

Ibuprofen, other NSAIDs and COVID-19: a narrative review

W Laughey, I Lodhi, G Pennick, L Smart, O Sanni… - …, 2023 - Springer
At the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (March 2020), there was
speculation that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen, used to …

Emergent drug and nutrition interactions in COVID-19: a comprehensive narrative review

D Ağagündüz, MN Çelik, ME Çıtar Dazıroğlu… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are known to cause respiratory tract
infections ranging from colds to more severe diseases, such as Middle East Respiratory …

Utilization of drugs with reports on potential efficacy or harm on COVID‐19 before, during, and after the first pandemic wave

S Enners, G Gradl, M Kieble, M Böhm… - … and drug safety, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Conflicting information on potential benefits of drugs as well as reports on
hypothetical harm of commonly used drugs in COVID‐19 treatment have challenged …

ACEIs, ARBs, ibuprofen originally linked to COVID-19: the other side of the mirror

MT Kelleni - Inflammopharmacology, 2020 - Springer
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a correspondence, published at the Lancet Respiratory
Medicine, that linked angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor …