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Latest COVID-19 Research & Evidence — 25/11/20
Research
Title: The dark side of the spoon - glucose, ketones and COVID-19: a possible role for ketogenic diet?
Description: Discussed, is the importance of a ketogenic diet for a rapid reduction of several critical risk factors for COVID-19, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and hypertension, based on the known effects of ketone bodies.
Available from: https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12967-020-02600-9.pdf
Title: COVID-19 and psychosis risk: real or delusional concern?
Description: The authors review the historical associations between viral infection and the immune system in the development of psychosis before critically evaluating the current evidence about SARS-CoV-2 and psychosis risk.
Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...s2.0-S0304394020307618-main.pdf
Title: Renin–angiotensin system inhibitors and mortality in patients with COVID-19
Description: The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of patients with hypertension and COVID-19 with respect to different chronic antihypertensive drug intake.
Available from: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s15010-020-01550-0.pdf
Guidance
Title: Reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism in over 16s with COVID-19
Description: This guideline covers pharmacological VTE prophylaxis for patients being treated for COVID-19 pneumonia—and applies to all patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, including those who have other conditions.
Available from: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng186
Title: COVID19- clinical presentation and therapeutic considerations
Description: Here, the authors provide an overview of the clinical presentation and pathogenesis of COVID-19 and the main therapeutic avenues currently under investigation.
Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X20320660/pdfft
Expert Opinions
Title: COVID-19 vaccines: no time for complacency
Description: The prospect of preventing illness and death, and avoiding the harm and misery of extended restrictions, is a cause for optimism. However, we are still far from ending COVID-19 as a public health issue.
Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820%2932472-7
Title: International survey of COVID-19 management strategies
Description: This paper elicits the views of health system staff, tapping into their personal expertise on how the pandemic was initially handled.
Available from: https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/advance-article-pdf/d...4457257/mzaa139.pdf
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