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posted by martyb on Saturday August 28 2021, @08:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-fibrations dept.

$15 drug gets COVID patients off oxygen support in under week – study:

Fourteen out of 15 severe COVID-19 patients who were treated in an investigator-initiated interventional open-label clinical study of the drug TriCor (fenofibrate)[*] didn't require oxygen support within a week of treatment and were released from the hospital, according to the results of a new Hebrew University of Jerusalem study.

Fenofibrate is an FDA-approved oral medication. The results were published on Researchsquare.com and are currently under peer review.

Specifically, the team that was led by HU's Prof. Yaakov Nahmias carried out the study at Israel's Barzilai Medical Center in coordination with the hospital's head of the Infectious Disease Unit, Prof. Shlomo Maayan, and with support from Abbott Laboratories.

[...] The 15 treated patients all had pneumonia and required oxygen support. They were also older with multiple comorbidities, ranging from diabetes and obesity to high blood pressure.

"The results were dramatic," Nahmias told The Jerusalem Post. "Progressive inflammation markers, which are the hallmark of deteriorative COVID-19, dropped within 48 hours of treatment. Moreover, 14 of the 15 severe patients didn't require oxygen support within a week of treatment." The 15th patient was off oxygen within 10 days.

When looking at the data on other similar severe patients, less than 30% of them on average are removed from oxygen support within a week. In other words, fenofibrate could dramatically shorten the treatment time for severe COVID patients.

"We know these kinds of patients deteriorate really fast, develop a cytokine storm in five to seven days and that it can take weeks to treat them and for them to get better," Nahmias said. "We gave these patients fenofibrate and the study shows inflammation dropped incredibly fast. They did not seem to develop a cytokine storm[**] at all."

Cytokine storms are aggressive inflammatory responses to illness.

[*] Fenofibrate entries on MedlinePlus and Wikipedia.

[**] Cytokine storm on Wikipedia.

Journal Reference:
Yaakov Nahmias, Avner Ehrlich, Konstantinos Ioannidis, et al. Metabolic Regulation of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-770724/v1)


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  • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Sunday August 29 2021, @06:12PM (2 children)

    by pTamok (3042) on Sunday August 29 2021, @06:12PM (#1172072)

    So fake. Anyone investigating youth culture knows they don't use punctuation - its regarded as rude.

  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday August 30 2021, @09:19AM (1 child)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Monday August 30 2021, @09:19AM (#1172266)

    Then why do you use it boomer we have identified you because anyone chill these days uses run on sentences without period or comma which makes the whole crap really hard to read if you happen to know a thing or two about grammar but then who does because ... damn this message is too long doesn't fit in a tweet anymore

    • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Monday August 30 2021, @08:45PM

      by pTamok (3042) on Monday August 30 2021, @08:45PM (#1172511)

      Samuel Beckett was obviously chill: How it is (1964) (Comment c'est) is entirely without punctuation for 147 pages.

      It's cute watching young people believe they are doing something new.