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Editorial
. 2022 Oct 1;12(10):1627.
doi: 10.3390/jpm12101627.

Statin Therapy to Improve Outcome of COVID-19 Patients: Useful or Not Useful?

Bruno Mégarbane  1
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Editorial

Statin Therapy to Improve Outcome of COVID-19 Patients: Useful or Not Useful?

Bruno Mégarbane. J Pers Med. .

Abstract

About one year ago, the journal published a large population-based cohort study from South Korea investigating the potential benefits associated with statins at preventing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection or improving the outcome of hospitalized coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients [...].

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