Muredach P. Reilly

Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

Nature · 2021 · 1108 citations

. They also represent potentially actionable mechanisms in response to infection. Mendelian randomization analyses support a causal role for smoking and body-mass index for severe COVID-19 although not for type II diabetes. The identification of novel host genetic factors associated with COVID-19 was made possible by the community of human genetics researchers coming together to prioritize the sharing of data, results, resources and analytical frameworks. This working model of international coll…

Empagliflozin in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology · 2023 · 38 citations

BACKGROUND: Empagliflozin has been proposed as a treatment for COVID-19 on the basis of its anti-inflammatory, metabolic, and haemodynamic effects. The RECOVERY trial aimed to assess its safety and efficacy in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. METHODS: In the randomised, controlled, open-label RECOVERY trial, several possible treatments are compared with usual care in patients hospitalised with COVID-19. In this analysis, we assess eligible and consenting adults who were randomly allo…

Immunomodulatory therapy in children with paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS, MIS-C; RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health · 2024 · 34 citations

BACKGROUND: Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS), also known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) emerged in April, 2020. The paediatric comparisons within the RECOVERY trial aimed to assess the effect of intravenous immunoglobulin or corticosteroids compared with usual care on duration of hospital stay for children with PIMS-TS and to compare tocilizumab (anti-IL-6 receptor monoclonal antibody) or anakinra (anti-IL-1 re…

Dimethyl fumarate in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

Nature Communications · 2024 · 8 citations

Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) inhibits inflammasome-mediated inflammation and has been proposed as a treatment for patients hospitalised with COVID-19. This randomised, controlled, open-label platform trial (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy [RECOVERY]), is assessing multiple treatments in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 (NCT04381936, ISRCTN50189673). In this assessment of DMF performed at 27 UK hospitals, adults were randomly allocated (1:1) to either usual standard of care alone or usual…

Polygenic risk and rare variants in endotypes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a genetic analysis of population-based and case–control cohorts

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine · 2026-01-27 · 1 citations

BACKGROUND: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and telomere length are both strongly linked to rare and common genetic variants. Shortened telomere length might itself be causal for IPF. We aimed to evaluate whether rare and common variants compete or cooperate to confer genetic risk of IPF uniformly. METHODS: In this genetic analysis, we used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from a discovery case-control cohort sequenced at Columbia University and validated findings using WGS data from Trans…