Mikkel Porsborg Andersen

TL;DR: This randomized controlled trial investigates whether recommending surgical mask use when outside the home reduces wearers' risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in a setting where masks were uncommon and not among recommended public health measures.

TL;DR: Men with Covid-19 infection have >50% higher risk of all-cause death, severe Covid -19 infection, or ICU admission than women, and the excess risk was not explained by age and comorbidities.

TL;DR: The results showing only modest effects of CVDs on increased risks of poor COVID-19 outcomes are important in allowing public health authorities and clinicians to provide more tailored guidance to cardiovascular patients, who have heretofore been grouped together as high risk due to their disease status.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated mortality rates, overall and according to location, in patients with established cardiovascular disease before, during, and after lockdown measures in Denmark and found that the overall, in-hospital, and out-of-hospital mortality rate in 2020 before lockdown was significantly lower compared with the same period in 2019 [adjusted incidence rate ratio (IRR) 0.87, 95% CI 0.83-0.93, respectively].

TL;DR: To compare the hazard of all‐cause, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure (HF) hospitalization in carvedilol vs. metoprolol/bisoproll/nebivolol users with COPD and concurrent HF from 2009 to 2012, and to evaluate the use and persistence in treatment of these β‐blockers, their impact on the risk of COPD‐related hospitalization, and the factors important for their selection.