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Blood Thinners Again Linked to COVID-19 Survival in Hospital – MedPage Today
This time with better methodology
Anticoagulation for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 was associated with lower risk of death or intubation in an observational study from New York City’s pandemic peak.
In-hospital mortality risk was a relative 50% lower with standard prophylactic dosing and 47% lower with higher therapeutic-level dosing after adjustment for other factors, both statistically significant when compared with COVID-19 patients in Mount Sinai hospitals not given an anticoagulant (mortality rates of 21.6%, 28.6%, …
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