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A This decision allows the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture this medicine, corticosteroid commonly used in other situations, request that the use for the treatment of COVID-19-19 in these cases is officially included in their marketing authorization.
“Based on available data, the EMA approves the use of dexamethasone in adults and adolescents (over 12 years and at least 40 kg) whose condition requires the administration of oxygen“the agency says in a statement cited by the agency AFP.
In particular, the EMA supports the decision in the conclusions of the Oxford University RECOVERY study, which were published in June.
“In patients intubated, 29% of those treated with dexamethasone He died after 28 days of treatment, compared to 41% of those who did not receive treatment ”, recalls the EMA.
“In patients who received oxygen without being intubated, these figures were 23% with dexamethasone and 26% without ”, he adds.
On the other hand, “there was no reduction in the risk of death in patients who did not receive oxygen“concludes the EMA.
In addition to this study on the dexamethasone, a series of studies published on 02 September in the American medical journal Jama demonstrated that medications from the entire family of corticosteroids can reduce mortality by 21% after 28 days in severe cases of COVID-19-19.
No other drug has shown significant effects in reducing mortality, which has led the World Health Organization to recommend “the routine use of corticosteroids in patients with severe or critical form “of the disease.
A pandemic of COVID-19-19 has already caused at least 946,727 deaths and more than 30.2 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,894 people died out of 67,176 cases of infection confirmed, according to the most recent Address-General health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected not end of December, in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
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