Virgin Coconut Oil as Adjunctive Therapy for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in a Tertiary Referral Hospital: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Virgin coconut oil (VCO) has anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties, making it a potential therapeutic candidate against COVID-19 infection.

Objective: To determine the efficacy and safety of VCO as adjunctive therapy for hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

Methods: We conducted a randomized, open-label controlled trial involving laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted at the Philippine General Hospital.

Current status of hypertension care and management in the Philippines.

Aims: In this paper, we discuss the existing data on the burden of hypertension in the Philippines and present the status of management, prevention, and control of hypertension in the country.

Methods: A literature review was conducted to synthesize the status of hypertension care in the Philippines.

Results: Hypertension continues to contribute to the country's leading causes of death.

Dyslipidemia research landscape and socioeconomic facilitators of scientific productivity in Southeast Asia.

Background: The growing prevalence of lipid disorder in Southeast Asia (SEA) resulted in an increase in clinical and epidemiological studies on dyslipidemia in the region. Thus, there is a need to summarize the existing evidence from the literature.

Aims: This paper determined the research landscape of dyslipidemia in SEA.