Aghajani et al., Journal of Medical Virology,
doi:10.1002/jmv.27053 (Peer Reviewed)
Decreased In-Hospital Mortality Associated with Aspirin Administration in Hospitalized Patients Due to Severe COVID-19
Retrospective 991 hospitalized patients in Iran focusing on aspirin use but also showing results for HCQ, remdesivir, and favipiravir.
Aghajani et al., 4/29/2021, retrospective, Iran, Middle East, peer-reviewed, 7 authors.
risk of death, 19.5% lower, RR 0.81, p = 0.09, treatment 553, control 438, multivariate Cox proportional regression.
Effect extraction follows
pre-specified rules
prioritizing more serious outcomes. For an individual study the most serious
outcome may have a smaller number of events and lower statistical signficance,
however this provides the strongest evidence for the most serious outcomes
when combining the results of many trials.