Effect of Previous Anticoagulant Treatment on Risk of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the role played by anticoagulants in COVID-19. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of previous anticoagulant treatment on risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19, progression to severe COVID-19 and susceptibility to COVID-19 infection. We conducted a multiple population-based case-control study in northwest Spain, in 2020, to assess (1) risk of hospitalization: cases were all patients admitted due to COVID-19 with PCR confirmation, and controls were a random matched sample of subjects without a positive PCR; (2) progression: cases were hospitalized COVID-19 subjects, and controls were all non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients; and (3) susceptibility: cases were patients with a positive PCR (hospitalized and non-hospitalized), and the controls were the same as

SUBMITTER: Zapata-Cachafeiro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9782265 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature