NEJM Retraction: Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, Covid-19

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A letter to the editor published June 4, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 382, Number 26, titled Retraction: Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19. The listed authors are Mandeep R. Mehra, Sapan S. Desai, SreyRam Kuy, Timothy D. Henry and Amit N. Patel. The letter states that because all the authors were not granted access to the raw data and the raw data could not be made available to a third-party auditor, the authors are unable to validate the primary data sources underlying the article. The authors therefore request that the article be retracted.

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Retraction: Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19. N Engl J Med. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2007621.

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Authors : Mandeep R. Mehra , M.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8683-7044 , Sapan S. Desai , M.D., Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-0176 , SreyRam Kuy , M.D., M.H.S. , Timothy D. Henry , M.D. , and Amit N. Patel , M.D. Author Info & Affiliations

Published June 4, 2020

N Engl J Med 2020 ; 382 : 2582

DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2021225

VOL. 382 NO. 26

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To the Editor: Because all the authors were not granted access to the raw data and the raw data could not be made available to a third-party auditor, we are unable to validate the primary data sources underlying our article, “Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19.” 1 We therefore request that the article be retracted. We apologize to the editors and to readers of the Journal for the difficulties that this has caused.

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Mehra MR, Desai SS, Kuy S, Henry TD, Patel AN. Cardiovascular disease, drug therapy, and mortality in Covid-19. N Engl J Med 2020;382:e102-e102.

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Volume 382 • Number 26 • June 25, 2020

Pages : 2582

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Published online : June 4, 2020

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Mandeep R. Mehra , M.D. 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8683-7044 , Sapan S. Desai , M.D., Ph.D. 2 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-0176 , SreyRam Kuy , M.D., M.H.S. 3 , Timothy D. Henry , M.D. 4 , and Amit N. Patel , M.D. 5

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1 Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Boston, MA

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2 Surgisphere, Chicago, IL

3 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

4 Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

5 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

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