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Featured article: Statins in patients with COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV-2 infection has profoundly affected the lives of millions of people. Because the development of effective vaccines or novel drugs could take several months (if not years), repurposing existing drugs is considered a more efficient strategy that could save lives now. Statins constitute a class of lipid-lowering drugs with proven safety profiles and various known beneficial pleiotropic effects. Previous investigations have showed that statins have antiviral effects and are involved in the process of wound healing in the lung. This triggered researchers to evaluate if statin use reduces mortality in COVID-19 patients.
In the current retrospective study, Peymani and colleagues investigated whether statin use is associated with improved survival and clinical outcome in COVID-19 patients.
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Translational Medicine Communications is the companion journal to Journal of Translational Medicine.
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Editor-in-Chief: Francesco Marincola, Kite Pharma, USA
Dr. Marincola is Global Head of Research at Kite Pharma, Santa Monica, California. He was previously President and Chief Scientific Officer at Refuge Biotechnologies, Menlo Park, California, Distinguished Research Fellow at AbbVie Corporation; Chief Research Officer at Sidra Research, Qatar; and Tenured Investigator at the National Institutes of Health, Maryland. Dr. Marincola founded in 2003 the Journal of Translational Medicine and is the Editor-in-Chief. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Translational Medicine Communications. He is past-president of the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) and the International Society for Translational Medicine. He edited several books including the SITC-affiliated Cancer Immunotherapy Principles and Practice Textbook. Dr. Marincola is also an award winning fiction author of The Wise Men of Pizzo and Cat Behind the Window.
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