[HTML][HTML] Understanding the role of neutrophils in chronic inflammatory airway disease

AE Jasper, WJ McIver, E Sapey, GM Walton - F1000Research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Airway neutrophilia is a common feature of many chronic inflammatory lung diseases and is
associated with disease progression, often regardless of the initiating cause. Neutrophils …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome and COVID-19: A literature review

M Hussain, S Khurram Syed, M Fatima… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an overwhelming inflammatory disorder of
the lung due to direct and indirect insults to the lungs. ARDS is characterized by increased …

In-hospital use of statins is associated with a reduced risk of mortality among individuals with COVID-19

XJ Zhang, JJ Qin, X Cheng, L Shen, YC Zhao, Y Yuan… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Statins are lipid-lowering therapeutics with favorable anti-inflammatory profiles and have
been proposed as an adjunct therapy for COVID-19. However, statins may increase the risk …

Association between antecedent statin use and decreased mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

A Gupta, MV Madhavan, TJ Poterucha… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can result in a hyperinflammatory state,
leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), myocardial injury, and thrombotic …

Latent class analysis of ARDS subphenotypes: a secondary analysis of the statins for acutely injured lungs from sepsis (SAILS) study

P Sinha, KL Delucchi, BT Thompson, DF McAuley… - Intensive care …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose Using latent class analysis (LCA), we have consistently identified two distinct
subphenotypes in four randomized controlled trial cohorts of ARDS. One subphenotype has …

Simvastatin improves neutrophil function and clinical outcomes in pneumonia. A pilot randomized controlled clinical trial

E Sapey, JM Patel, H Greenwood… - American journal of …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Population studies suggest improved sepsis outcomes with statins, but the results
of randomized controlled trials in patients with sepsis and organ dysfunction in critical care …

Precision medicine and heterogeneity of treatment effect in therapies for ARDS

YA Khan, E Fan, ND Ferguson - Chest, 2021 - Elsevier
ARDS is a clinically heterogeneous syndrome, rather than a distinct disease. This
heterogeneity at least partially explains the difficulty in studying treatments for these patients …

Pulmonary infections in the elderly lead to impaired neutrophil targeting, which is improved by simvastatin

E Sapey, JM Patel, HL Greenwood… - American journal of …, 2017 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Dysregulated neutrophil functions with age and sepsis are described. Statins are
associated with improved infection survival in some observational studies, but trials in …

Association between cardiometabolic risk factors and COVID-19 susceptibility, severity and mortality: a review

Y Sharifi, M Payab, E Mohammadi-Vajari… - Journal of Diabetes & …, 2021 - Springer
The novel coronavirus, which began spreading from China Wuhan and gradually spreaded
to most countries, led to the announcement by the World Health Organization on March 11 …

Statins suppress Ebola virus infectivity by interfering with glycoprotein processing

P Shrivastava-Ranjan, M Flint, É Bergeron, AK McElroy… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Ebola virus (EBOV) infection is a major public health concern due to high fatality rates and
limited effective treatments. Statins, widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, have pleiotropic …