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FDA Approves Landmark COVID/Heart/CBD Clinical Trial -- SECFilings.com
Redondo Beach, California--(Newsfile Corp. - September 30, 2020) - SECFilings.com, a leading f...
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[{"type":"text","content":"FDA Approves Landmark COVID/Heart/CBD Clinical Trial -- SECFilings.comRedondo Beach, California--(Newsfile Corp. - September 30, 2020) - SECFilings.com, a leading financial news and information portal offering free real time public company filing alerts, announces the publication of an article covering a potentially major development in the quest to improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved an Investigational New Drug application by Cardiol Therapeutics Inc. (TSX: CRDL) (OTCQX: CRTPF) that opens the door for Cardiol to conduct its Phase II/III trial. The trial, designed by leading experts on inflammatory heart disease, will test the cardioprotective properties of cannabidiol (CBD) for COVID-19 patients with a prior history of, or risk factors for, cardiovascular disease (CVD).Heart Issues and COVIDThe US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) lists pre-existing serious heart conditions as a major risk factor for COVID-19 patients. The CDC provided data for cases in the US through May, and found that 45% of hospitalized patients had underlying conditions, with CVD the most common of these at 32%. The European Society of Cardiology notes that the body's inflammatory response to the COVID-19 viral infection can stress the cardiovascular system and warns that, \"Individuals with heart conditions, such as heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, advanced forms of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and patients with congenital cyanotic heart disease are at highest risk.\"To be clear, CVD does not increase the chances of being infected, but rather increases the chances of severe complications should one become infected. COVID was originally thought to be primarily a respiratory disease, but the link to heart conditions has the scientific community scrambling to precisely identify the nature of that link and to come up with treatments that can improve outcomes for these patients.Cardiol's Potential TherapyCardiol Therapeutics is a Canadian company started and run by a team of cardiovascular disease experts. The CEO, David Elsley, founded Vasogen, Inc. back in 1990 to develop therapies for heart failure and other inflammatory conditions. CMO Dr. Eldon R. Smith was the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology following a long stint at the University of Calgary as...