Remdesivir, dexamethasone and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors use and mortality outcomes in COVID-19 patients with concomitant troponin elevation
Chukwuemeka A Umeh, Heather Maoz, Jessica Obi, Ruchi Dakoria, Smit Patel, Gargi Maity, Pranav Barve
Chukwuemeka A Umeh, Heather Maoz, Jessica Obi, Ruchi Dakoria, Smit Patel, Gargi Maity, Pranav Barve, Internal Medicine, Hemet Global Medical Center, Hemet, CA 92543, United States
Author contributions: Umeh CA, Maoz H, Obi J, Dakoria R, Patel S, Maity G and Barve P conceptualized and revised the study design; Umeh CA analyzed the data; Maoz H, Umeh CA, Obi J, Dakoria R, Patel S, and Maity G, wrote the first draft of the paper; Barve P and Umeh CA, reviewed and revised the paper; Maoz H led and coordinated the research and writing of the manuscript; Barve P and Umeh CA supervised the project; all authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The WIRB-Copernicus Group (WCG) institutional review board (IRB) approved the study. IRB approval number: 13410516.
Informed consent statement: Our study was a retrospective observational study which used medical records for data acquisition and analysis and thus does not require informed consent from subjects.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None to declare.
Data sharing statement: The data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Heather Maoz, MD, Doctor, Internal Medicine, Hemet Global Medical Center, 1117 E. Devonshire Ave., Hemet, CA 92543, United States. heathermaoz@gmail.com
Received: April 21, 2023
Peer-review started: April 21, 2023
First decision: June 19, 2023
Revised: July 12, 2023
Accepted: August 17, 2023
Article in press: August 17, 2023
Published online: September 26, 2023
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