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A Canadian study reveals the effectiveness of an anti-inflammatory drug in treating the Corona virus

2021-01-23T21:43:46.556Z


Ottawa-SANA A Canadian medical study showed that an anti-inflammatory drug with the name Ottawa-Sana A Canadian medical study showed that an anti-inflammatory drug called "colchicine" is effective in treating infection with the Coronavirus and reducing the risk of complications due to it. And Agence France-Presse quoted the Montreal Cardiac Institute as saying in a statement that the results of this study are a great scientific discovery and make colchicine, which is used to treat g


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A Canadian medical study showed that an anti-inflammatory drug called "colchicine" is effective in treating infection with the Coronavirus and reducing the risk of complications due to it.

And Agence France-Presse quoted the Montreal Cardiac Institute as saying in a statement that the results of this study are a great scientific discovery and make colchicine, which is used to treat gout, the first drug taken orally in the world that can be used to treat people with Corona virus outside hospitals, indicating that the results of the study showed that colchicine By 21 percent, it reduced the risk of death or hospitalization for those infected with Corona, compared to those who participated in experiments and were given a placebo.

The Montreal Institute added that this is the largest study in the world testing a drug that is taken orally on patients with corona who are not receiving treatment in hospitals, explaining that the study was conducted in Canada, the United States, Europe and South America on 4,884 Corona patients who did not enter the hospital at the time of their registration to participate in the trials and it was They have at least one risk factor for complications.

The study pointed out that 1594 of the participants who were diagnosed with corona through the “BCR” test, the use of colchicine reduced the need for hospitalization by 25 percent, reduced the need for artificial respiration by 50 percent, and reduced deaths by 44 percent.

Dr. Jean-Claude Tardev, director of the Research Center at the Montreal Institute and the principal investigator of this study, said that colchicine is effective in preventing serious inflammatory syndromes called cytokine storms in addition to reducing complications associated with corona, noting that the use of the drug “may have a significant impact on public health and the possibility of preventing complications. The virus is among millions of infected people.

According to the latest statistics of the Canadian health authorities, the total number of Coronavirus cases in Canada so far has reached 741451, and the total deaths reached 18,956 cases.

Source: sena

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